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Glazed   /gleɪzd/   Listen
Glazed

adjective
1.
(used of eyes) lacking liveliness.  Synonym: glassy.  "A glassy stare" , "His eyes were glazed over with boredom"
2.
Fitted or covered with glass.  Synonym: glassed.
3.
Having a shiny surface or coating.  Synonym: shiny.  "Glazed doughnuts"
4.
(of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture.  "A glazed ham"


Glaze

verb
(past & past part. glazed; pres. part. glazing)
1.
Coat with a glaze.  "Glaze the bread with eggwhite"
2.
Become glassy or take on a glass-like appearance.  Synonyms: glass, glass over, glaze over.
3.
Furnish with glass.  Synonym: glass.
4.
Coat with something sweet, such as a hard sugar glaze.  Synonyms: candy, sugarcoat.



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"Glazed" Quotes from Famous Books



... but a little shade came over his face. He had no chance of making out Tom's college, as the new cap which would have betrayed him had disappeared in the lasher. He himself wore a glazed straw hat, which was of no college; so that up to this time neither of them had known to what ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes
... kept in glass or glazed earthen ware. The vessel containing it should be washed and scalded with scrupulous care before new yeast is put in, since the smallest particle of sour or spoiled yeast will ruin the fresh supply in a very short time. It is generally conceded that yeast will keep longer if the material ...
— Science in the Kitchen. • Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
... been duly carried out. Ted Baldwin, who sprawled now in the seat of honour beside the Bodymaster, had been chief of the party. His flushed face and glazed, bloodshot eyes told of sleeplessness and drink. He and his two comrades had spent the night before among the mountains. They were unkempt and weather-stained. But no heroes, returning from a forlorn hope, could have had a ...
— The Valley of Fear • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
... front feet together so that she could not step more than a foot, we loosed the chains from the two posts and ordered her to come to an "about face," and go out. Instead of doing that she determinedly advanced toward the right, and came within reach of twelve handsome glazed cases of live reptiles that stood on a long table. Frantically the men tried to drive her back. For answer she put her two front feet on the top bar of the steel guard rail and smashed ten feet of it to the floor. Then she began to butt those glass snake cages off their table, ...
— The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals • William T. Hornaday
... The glass in the several windows being very old, has contracted such a rust, that it is scarcely to be distinguished from the stone walls; consequently, it appears as if there were no lights at all in the tower, but only recesses in the stone, whereas could the windows be glazed with squares and kept clean, which might be done, they would be plainly visible at a distance, and not only so, but from the adjacent hills you would see the light quite through the tower, which would have a very fine effect." It is curious to remember that perfectly as it accords with the rest ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury - A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum • Gleeson White


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