glazing

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.To furnish (a window, a house, a sash, a case, etc.) with glass. [1913 Webster]

Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

3.(Paint.) To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to (another color), to modify the effect. [1913 Webster]

4.(Cookery) To cover (a donut, cupcake, meat, etc.) with a thin layer of edible syrup, or other substance which may solidify to a glossy coating. The material used for glazing is usually sweet or highly flavored. [PJC]

1.The act or art of setting glass; the art of covering with a vitreous or glasslike substance, or of polishing or rendering glossy. [1913 Webster]

2.The glass set, or to be set, in a sash, frame. etc. [1913 Webster]

3.The glass, glasslike, or glossy substance with which any surface is incrusted or overlaid; as, the glazing of pottery or porcelain, or of paper. [1913 Webster]

4.(Paint.) Transparent, or semitransparent, colors passed thinly over other colors, to modify the effect. [1913 Webster]