GLARE, noun 1. A bright dazzling light; clear, brilliant luster or splendor, that dazzles the eyes. The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare 2. A fierce, piercing look. --About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare 3. A viscous transparent substance. [See Glair.] GLARE, verb intransitive To shine with a clear, bright, dazzling light; as glaring light. The cavern glares with new admitted light. 1. To look with fierce, piercing eyes. They glared, like angry lions. 2. To shine with excessive luster; to be ostentatiously splendid; as a glaring dress. She glares in balls, front boxes and the ring. GLARE, verb transitive To shoot a dazzling light.
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