Glazed
[ɡleɪzd] or [glezd]
Definition
(adj.) having a shiny surface or coating; 'glazed fabrics'; 'glazed doughnuts' .
(adj.) fitted or covered with glass; 'four glazed walls' .
(adj.) (of foods) covered with a shiny coating by applying e.g. beaten egg or a sugar or gelatin mixture; 'glazed doughnuts'; 'a glazed ham' .
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Examples
- A couple of glazed book-cases were here, containing standard works in stout gilt bindings. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Her eyes glazed--she tottered--I thought that she would faint. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- He looked at him, as he passed through the hall and up the staircase, going to dinner, with a glazed fixedness that Mr Dorrit did not like. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Man and horse were down; they had slipped on the sheet of ice which glazed the causeway. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I saw full well that no spark of life existed in that ruined form, his features were rigid, his eyes glazed, his head had fallen back. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- A mother cradled in her enfeebled arms the child, last of many, whose glazed eye was about to close for ever. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He wore a glazed hat, an ancient boat-cloak, and shoes; his brass buttons bearing an anchor upon their face. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- My glazed eye wandered over the dim and misty landscape. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He was sitting alone in a bare little room, which communicated by a glazed door with a surgery. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- As they looked on him in astonishment, the eyes opened--but they were fixed and glazed. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- At the time of cutting the stalks had well-formed but small ears, the kernels of which had largely passed the milk state; that is, the kernels were mostly glazed. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- All invisible inks will show on glazed paper, therefore unglazed paper should be used. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The manuscript, if written on glazed paper, will not dry for hours, and will yield one or two fair, neat, dry copies by simple pressure of the hand. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- His eyes were unchanging, glazed with darkness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- That is, it was unglazed, simply baked clay; _lustrous_ or _semi-glazed_ and _enamelled_ having a harder surface. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
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