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.
Barely breathing now, I moved my feet up, scrabbling my crampon points across the verglas. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
Pas pour toujours mais genre quand ya du verglas ou des trucs comme ca comme elle habite pas loin du boulot. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
The ice in the chimney did in fact prove to be continuous, but it was very, very thin -- just a gossamer film of verglas. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
Pushing myself, continually out of breath, I scurried up and to the left across small snowfields linked by narrow runnels of verglas and short rock bands. From Wordnik.com. [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]
J'ai depensé des centaine de dollars chez Luts en fringues d'hiver pour Ezy qui ne serviront a rien puisque malgre l'alerte orange voire rouge nous n'avons aucun flocon de neige ... juste trois quatre plaque de verglas a la con .... bref!. From Wordnik.com. [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference
Sifflait; sur le verglas, dans des lieux inconnus. From Wordnik.com. [L'Expiation] Reference
Climbing up to the plateau required us to weave our way through cliff bands choked with verglas and ice formed in the freeze-thaw cycles of recent days. From Wordnik.com. [Backpacking Light Magazine] Reference
We encountered all sorts of terrain that is easily navigable in the winter, but 'spooky' with only a thin cover of snow (and sometimes, verglas), such as this steep granite slab, which we descended in snowshoes. From Wordnik.com. [Backpacking Light Magazine] Reference
Someone who didn’t use words like verglas. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-12-01] Reference
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