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Meaning of GLASE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Glase\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glased}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Glazing}.] [OE. glasen, glazen, fr. glas. See {Glass}.]
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.
 

 

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