Verb (used with object) : to glaze a window. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Their eyes glazed over as the lecturer droned on. From Dictionary.com.
The new technique in glazing soon spread beyond the azulejos used for the churches and monasteries. From Wordnik.com. [Talavera - Mexico's earthly legacy from the City Of Angels] Reference
It is a very fundamental issue to social conservatives and I think he's just kind of glazing over it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2007] Reference
Garden windows come with full glazing which is top and bottom glazing or side glazing only or you can try a combination of both. From Wordnik.com. [Blisstree] Reference
Caliban lay where he fell, his eyes slowly glazing. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
The squawk of steam, espresso dust glazing our tied back hair. From Wordnik.com. [Special Blend] Reference
For a lot rides on Barcelona, beyond eye-glazing "economic reform.". From Wordnik.com. [TURNING OFF THE LIGHTS] Reference
The power of the picture is very great, and it is not overpowered by glazing. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
The little captain's eyes were glazing behind the glass windows of her helmet. From Wordnik.com. [Madge Morton's Victory] Reference
The lieutenant stepped back clumsily, his eyes glazing in the flickering light. From Wordnik.com. [Despoilers of the Golden Empire] Reference
The spar is shipped to the mills in New Jersey, where it is used for glazing crockery. From Wordnik.com. [The New England Magazine Volume 1, No. 3, March, 1886 Bay State Monthly Volume 4, No. 3, March, 1886] Reference
He shall give his mind to finish the glazing, and his watching to make clean the furnace. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 26: Ecclesiasticus The Challoner Revision] Reference
It dries well, however, in its natural state, and lasts in glazing when deprived of its gum. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Shortly into the flight, the window glazing cracked, there was a boom and the plane decompressed. From Wordnik.com. [The only ones: Escaping near death] Reference
Thou from Mentor Mecca, thy glazing orbs lighting with boyhood's longing for ocean's trackless wave!. From Wordnik.com. [Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898] Reference
He leaned weakly against the table to which I was strapped, his eyes on mine glazing over with death. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
The glazing also makes the coffee retain moisture which would otherwise be driven off during roasting. From Wordnik.com. [Human Foods and Their Nutritive Value] Reference
There is none of the scumbling and glazing and re-working so common in the English portraits of the time. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol 31, No 2, June 1908] Reference
Frederick Wigan, Bart., in memory of his daughter, the glazing of this fine window was entrusted to Mr. C.E. Kempe. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
His face sprang out before her -- against the moonlit wall, in the glazing of the pictures, on the dial of the clock. From Wordnik.com. [Sacrifice] Reference
We have all marked the fading cheek, the shrinking limbs, the glazing eye, which mark the passage from life unto death. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Duty, v. 2 A year's plain sermons on the Gospels or Epistles] Reference
But if you already have storm windows or insulated glazing, replacing the window will not bring any significant savings. From Wordnik.com. [Buzzword: Weatherization] Reference
It affords beautiful foliage tints, and would, if it could be depended on, be of extreme value in what is called "glazing.". From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
In thin washes or glazing it is totally inadmissible; and, being neither a red, an orange, nor a brown, is unsuited to pure effects. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
As it was, his eyes were already glazing and his limbs stiffening and his breath coming in long-drawn sobs, like a man in extremity. From Wordnik.com. [The Rose of Old St. Louis] Reference
In mixture or glazing, however, these effects are reversed, by reason of the predominance of cold colour in the constitution of black. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
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