Word Meanings - GLAZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to , to modify the effect. (more info) 1. To furnish with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon. 2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with

Additional info about word: GLAZE

To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to , to modify the effect. (more info) 1. To furnish 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GLAZE)

• Burnish
• Brighten
• glaze
• polish
• gloze
• gloss
• Lubricate
• Oil
• ease
• grease
• levigate
• Varnish
• Glaze
• disguise
• palliate
• embellish
• sophisticate
• furbish

Related words: (words related to GLAZE)

• GLOSSA
  The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.
• GLOSSIST
  A writer of comments. Milton.
• GLOSSOLOGY
  1. The definition and explanation of terms; a glossary. 2. The science of language; comparative philology; linguistics; glottology.
• GLOSSARIAL
  Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
• GLOSSOLOGICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossology.
• BURNISHER
  1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• BURNISH
  To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper. The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare From far, and seemed to thaw the freezing
• GLOSSOGRAPHICAL
  Of or pertaining to glossography.
• GLOSSANTHRAX
  A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
• EMBELLISH
  To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrative with striking anecdotes, or style with metaphors. Syn. -- To adorn; beautify; deck;
• GLOZER
  A flatterer. Gifford .
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• PALLIATE
  1. Covered with a mant Bp. Hall. 2. Eased; mitigated; alleviated. Bp. Fell.
• GLOSSOLOGIST
  One who defines and explains terms; one who is versed in glossology.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• GREASE COCK; GREASE CUP
  A cock or cup containing grease, to serve as a lubricator.
• DISGUISEMENT
  Disguise. Spenser.
• VARNISHER
  1. One who varnishes; one whose occupation is to varnish. 2. One who disguises or palliates; one who gives a fair external appearance. Pope.
• SOPHISTICATE
  To render worthless by admixture; to adulterate; to damage; to pervert; as, to sophisticate wine. Howell. To sophisticate the understanding. Southey. Yet Butler professes to stick to plain facts, not to sophisticate, not to refine. M. Arnold. They
• AMBERGREASE
  See AMBERGRIS
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• GYMNOGLOSSA
  A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
• SACCOGLOSSA
  See PELLIBRANCHIATA
• ENTOGLOSSAL
  Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.