glaze

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GLAZE, verb transitive [from glass.] To furnish with windows of glass; as, to glaze a house. 1. To incrust with a vitreous substance, the basis of which is lead, but combined with silex, pearl-ashes and common salt; as, to glaze earthen ware. 2. To cover with any thing smooth and shining; or to render the exterior of a thing smooth, bright and showy. Though with other ornaments he may glaze and brandish the weapons. 3. To give a glass surface; to make glossy; as, to glaze cloth.
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