glase Meaning, Definition & Usage

Glase transitive verb

Etymology

OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See Glass.

Wordforms

imperfect & past participle Glased ; present participle & verbal noun Glazing

Definitions

1. To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a ease, etc.) with glass.

   Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon.

2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like.

   Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak.

3. (Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect.