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Glare   /glɛr/   Listen
noun
Glare  n.  
1.
A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light. "The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare."
2.
A fierce, piercing look or stare. "About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare."
3.
A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
4.
A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice. (U. S.)



verb
Glare  v. t.  To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. "Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire."



Glare  v. i.  (past & past part. glared; pres. part. glaring)  
1.
To shine with a bright, dazzling light. "The cavern glares with new-admitted light."
2.
To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. "And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon."
3.
To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. "She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring."



adjective
Glare  adj.  Smooth and bright or translucent; used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice. (U. S.)






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"Glare" Quotes from Famous Books



... gave her his arm, and they went back to the glare and heat of the yellow dragons and scarlet griffins. Another Lancer scramble was in full progress, to the old-fashioned jigging tunes, but Mrs. Tempest was sitting among the matrons in a corner ...
— Vixen, Volume I. • M. E. Braddon

... walls form square or oblong corrals, where the fish can easily enter, but not so readily find a way out. After dark the owners come with lighted torches and carefully examine the corrals, turning up every stone. The fish are blinded by the glare of the light and can be caught and thrown into baskets. Frogs, tadpoles, larvae, and water-beetles ...
— Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) • Carl Lumholtz

... the war, which we ought to take advantage of, is the chance given the general public to approach on the personal side some of the distinguished men who have not hitherto lived much in the glare of the footlights. Henry James has probably done this as little as any one; he has enjoyed for upward of forty years a reputation not confined to his own country, has published a long succession of novels, tales, and critical papers, and yet has apparently so delighted in reticence as well as ...
— New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 - April-September, 1915 • Various

... let down the water in one body, like a falling ocean. We stood motionless, and almost stupefied; yet nothing had been struck. Peal after peal rattled over our heads, with a sound which seemed actually to stop the breath in the body, and the "speedy gleams" kept the whole ocean in a glare of light. The violent fall of rain lasted but a few minutes, and was succeeded by occasional drops and showers; but the lightning continued incessant for several hours, breaking the midnight darkness with irregular and blinding flashes. During all which ...
— Two Years Before the Mast • Richard Henry Dana

... the stars were shining; and every now and then the wind would make a shovel of itself, and toss up the hot ashes the fire had left, sending a dull red glare around on the house and barns for a moment, and flooding all the neighborhood with a ...
— Dab Kinzer - A Story of a Growing Boy • William O. Stoddard


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