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gle
zd) [f. GLAZE v.1 + -ED1.]
1. Furnished or filled in with glass; fitted with windows of glass; covered with a piece of glass.
1591 PERCIVALL Sp. Dict.,
Vidriado, glased.
1630 R. Johnson's Kingd. & Commw. 291 A faire glazed window.
1638 PENKETHMAN Artach. Liijb, My Studie or glazed Shop against the Rolls.
1664 EVELYN Kal. Hort. (1729) 207 Covering the Head and the rest of the Tree above, with a glaz'd Frame.
1667 MILTON P.L. III. 590 A spot like which perhaps Astronomer..Through his glaz'd Optic Tube yet never saw.
1849 JAMES Woodman iv, Two larger houses..had glazed windows.
1883 GILMOUR Mongols xxxii. 368 A framed and glazed table, hung up conspicuously, where every traveller may see the exact amount payable.
2. Coated with a vitreous or glassy surface.
1662 MERRETT tr.
Neri's Art of Glass xviii, Glased pans.
1663 GERBIER Counsel 90 Black glased Holland pan tiles.
1747 H. GLASSE Cookery xvi. 146 A glazed Jug with a long Neck.
1824 W. IRVING T. Trav. I. 58 A great fireplace, with the whole Bible history in glazed tiles.
1842 PARNELL Chem. Anal. (1845) 404 The mass..is..carefully powdered in a glazed mortar.
3. a. Having a smooth shining surface, produced either by a coating substance or by friction, etc.; made glassy in appearance. Also, in Painting, of colours: Covered with a ‘glaze’ of another colour. (See GLAZE v. 2, 3, 4, 5.)
1530 [see
GLAZEDNESS].
1608 MIDDLETON Fam. Love II. ii. B4a, The iocund morne lookes more liuely and fresh, then an oulde gentlewomans glaz'd face in a new perriwigge.
1695 DRYDEN tr.
Dufresnoy's Art Paint. Observ.
382 Glaz'd Colours have a Vivacity which can never be imitated by the..most brilliant Colours.
1719 DE FOE Crusoe I. xiii, Two pounds of glazed powder.
1726 LEONI Alberti's Archit. I. 35 Sea-sand..the blackest and most glazed is not wholly to be despis'd.
1747 H. GLASSE Art of Cookery iii. 54 Glazed Fish.
1800 tr.
Lagrange's Chem. I. 235 There are two kinds of gunpowder: that used in war, and that used for shooting game; the former is coarser, and not glazed; the latter is glazed, and much finer.
1814 CARY Dante's Inf. XXXIII. 125 The glazed tear-drops that o'erlay mine eyes.
1824 BYRON Juan XV. lxv, They also set a glazed Westphalian ham on.
1832 BABBAGE Econ. Manuf. xi. (ed. 3) 90 The glazed calico is now passed between the rollers.
1840 DICKENS Old C. Shop iv, Men in glazed hats and round jackets.
1845 MRS. CARLYLE Lett. I. 352 Written on glazed paper.
1875 KNIGHT Dict. Mech.,
Glazed Board, a kind of mill-board having a hard, smooth surface, to give a smooth face to the paper or fabric pressed between such boards.
b. Of the eye (see GLAZE v.1 3). Also Path. of the tongue, of the surface of a wound, etc.
1735 SOMERVILLE Chase I. 375 With heavy Eyes Glaz'd, lifeless, dull.
1822 B. CORNWALL Sicilian Story xix. 6 Settled Madness in her glazed eye Told of a young heart wronged.
1822-34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 554 In some examples of fully developed typhus, where the tongue was glazed, dry and brown.
1840 L
ISTON Elem. Surg. II. 766 Farther dressing is delayed for six or eight hours, when the oozing has entirely ceased, and the visible cut surface becomes glazed.
1889 JESSOPP Coming of Friars iv. 197 A subordinate..finishing the work which his master's glazed eye perhaps never rested on.
c. glazed frost (see quot.).
1889 Daily News 25 Dec. 2/4 In the year 1808 the phenomenon of ‘glazed frost’ was observed, the rain freezing as it touched the ground.
d. Metallurgy. Having a smooth shining surface or fracture owing to a high silicon content (in the case of pig-iron) or fusion of the surface (in the case of blister steel).
1874 W. H. GREENWOOD Man. Metallurgy I. ix. 160 Aired and glazed bars are unfit for melting into best cast-steel, and require reconverting.
1884 
Steel & Iron iv. 55 The excess of fuel employed when first blowing in a furnace often results in the metal first tapped being more highly siliceous than that produced in subsequent workings, and..the siliceous pig known as glazed or blazed pig often results.
1923 HARBORD &
HALL Metall. Steel (ed. 7) I. x. 245 Sometimes..the pots become too highly heated, with the result that the surface of the bars is slightly fused, and these are known as ‘glazed bars’.
1967 A. K. O
SBORNE Encycl. Iron & Steel Industry (ed. 2) 182
Glazed pig, pig iron containing a very high silicon content, e.g. 5%, which gives a very fine grained lustrous fracture.
4. ? fig. Brilliant, splendid. Obs.
a1550 Treat. Galaunt 69 in Hazl. E.P.P. III. 154 Thy glased lyfe and glotony be glewed so in fere That Englande may wayle that euer it came here.
Hence 
glazedness.
1530 PALSGR. 225/2 Glasednesse,
uoyroyseté.
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