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▪ I. glare, n.1|glɛə(r)|
Also 5 glayre.
[f. glare v.]
1. Dazzling brilliance (of a light, fire, sun, etc.); a strong fierce light. Also absol., dazzling or oppressive sunshine, esp. when falling upon reflecting surfaces and not relieved by shadow or verdure.
c1400Destr. Troy 5926 All shone his shilde & his shene armur, Glissenond of gold with a glayre hoge. 1697W. Dampier Voy. (1729) I. 4 Betwixt 10 and 11 it cleared up..The glare did not continue long before it rained again. 1700Dryden Pal. & Arc. ii. 546 The frame of burnished steel, that cast a glare From far. 1716Addison Ovid, Met. ii. 131 The seat with party-colour'd gems was bright; Apollo shin'd amid the glare of light. 1748Anson's Voy. iii. iii. 320 The frequent glare of the lightning had prevented the explosions from being observed. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 71 The naked negro, panting at the line..Basks in the glare. 1832W. Irving Alhambra II. 45 The owl, who hated the glare and bustle of crowded streets [etc.]. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xi. 71 The comet..shone over the land with a fearful glare. 1877A. B. Edwards Up Nile ii. 36 At a little before midday, when the heat and glare were becoming intolerable.
fig.1809–10Coleridge Friend (1865) 29 Books..looked at through the thick mists of ignorance, or amid the glare of prejudice and passion. 1850Carlyle Latter-d. Pamph. viii. (1872) 258 There rose this..glare of hope upon Ignatius. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 66 Who knows if this our René's quick Subsidence from as sudden noise and glare Into oblivion was impolitic.
b. The glistening or shining of some surface.
1658W. Sanderson Graphice 86 Wash it over with..Gum-dragon, steeped or dissolved in water, which will set a glare or freshnesse upon the Picture. a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Glare, a Glister; also the weak Light of a Comet, Candle, or Glow-worm. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. iv. vii. (1852) 128 What would it avail if a man could make a glare on his face, by smearing it with some of the noctilucas invented by the modern chymistry? 1811Self Instructor 550 Take the glare off the copper.
2. fig. Dazzling or showy appearance; gaudiness; tawdry brilliance.
1706Estcourt Fair Examp. iv. i. 49, I find, that Virtue was but a Glare to blind my Jealousie. 1790F. Burney Diary 6 May, She is a very fine woman..but with rather too much glare, both without and within. 1812Byron Ch. Har. i. ix, Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare. 1856H. Rogers Ess. II. viii. 361 The imagery is too profuse, the diction too ornate; in a word, there is too much of the pomp and glare of rhetoric.
3. A fierce or piercing look.
1667Milton P.L. iv. 402 About them round A Lion now he [Satan] stalkes with fierie glare. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) VII. 156 Winged serpents..destroying mankind by a single glare. 1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. ii. 48 Mark the fixed gaze, the wild and frenzied glare. 1834Lytton Pompeii i. vi, His eyes were hollow, and shone with a brilliant and feverish glare. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 450 The glare of his eyes had a fascination for the unhappy victim on whom they were fixed.
▪ II. glare, n.2|glɛə(r)|
[Of obscure origin: cf. glare n.1 1 b.]
†a. Frost, icy condition (obs.).
b. U.S. A sheet of ice.
1567Turbervile Epit., etc. 81 b, How may Glare and Frost intise a feruent sweate. 1569Ibid. (1587) 186 b, Eight monthes the Winter dures, The glare it is so great. 1854M. Cummins Lamplighter xiii, You noticed how everything was covered with ice, this morning..the pavement was..a perfect glare.
▪ III. glare, a. U.S.|glɛə(r)|
Also glair.
[? attrib. use of glare n.2]
Smooth and bright or translucent, glassy. Chiefly of ice.
1856Olmsted Slave States 345 A congealed pool of rosin..firm and glair; varying in color, and glistening like polished porphyry. 1859F. A. Griffiths Artil. Man. (1862) 63 note, The recoil of guns on Sleighs varies from four or five feet when on rough ground..to twenty or thirty yards when on glare ice. 1872C. King Mountain. Sierra Nev. iv. 89 Looking down the glare front of ice. 1890W. P. Lett in Shields Big Game N. Amer. 85 It [the Caribou] then suddenly squats upon its haunches, and slides along the glare-ice.
▪ IV. glare, v.|glɛə(r)|
[ME. glaren = MDu., MLG. glaren (mod. dial. Du. glarien) to gleam, glare. Kilian explains glaerende ooghen as ‘gray eyes’ (oculi cæsii, glauci), and glaer-oogigh as ‘gray-eyed’. To the same set of words may perh. be referred MHG. (ver)glarren, LG. gleren, glerren; and connexion with glass seems probable.]
1. intr. To shine with a brilliant or dazzling light. Also of light itself.
c1250Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. 27 Þet Gold þet is bricht and glareth ine þo brichtnesse of þo sunne [etc.]. c1384Chaucer H. Fame i. 272 Hyt is not al golde that glareth. c1440Promp. Parv. 198/1 Glaryn, or bryghtly shynyn..rutilo. 1530Palsgr. 568/1, I glare or glystre, as golde dothe, je reluys. 1658W. Sanderson Graphice 4 Light..It twinckles in a Star; Blazes and glares out in a Comet. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 174 No zephyr fondly sues the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest. 1795–1814Wordsw. Excurs. i. 2 Southward the landscape indistinctly glared, Through a pale steam. 1839Longfellow Hyperion i. vii, The setting sun glared wildly from the summit of the hills. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xiv. 93 Through the fissures..the morning light glared strangely. 1885Athenæum 23 May 667/1 The whitish dust which glares in the brilliant sunlight of the Dorsetshire coast.
b. fig. To display oneself ostentatiously; to be obtrusively evident or conspicuous.
1712Pope 1st Ep. to Miss Blount 53 She glares in Balls, front Boxes, and the Ring, A vain, unquiet, glitt'ring, wretched Thing! a1748Watts Improv. Mind ii. iii. §9 Though the demonstration glare in their faces. 1791Boswell Johnson (1816) III. 298 A writer [Pennant]..whose ungenerous prejudice against the house of Stuart glares in misrepresentation. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 128 It is insufficient to say French influence prevails..The fact is—it glares—it is too ostensible and obtrusive. 1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Aristocr. Wks. (Bohn) II. 76 The feudal character of the English state..glares a little, in contrast with the democratic tendencies.
2. To look fixedly and fiercely. Const. at, on, upon.
1609W. M. Man in Moone F 2 b, Mo-ckso..glared vpon me, as if he would haue looked through me. 1659D. Pell Impr. Sea 110 note, The Hebrews call anger Aph, because therein..the whole man swells like a Toad, and glares like the Devil. 1740Somerville Hobbinol iii. 375 She haunts him still, And glares upon him with her haggard Eyes. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. xxxiv, And each upon his rival glared. 1859F. Paget Curate, etc. 313 You actually glared on his daughters with a most morose aspect. 1871B. Taylor Faust (1875) I. xxi. 183, I peeped at the owl in her nest alone: How she stared and glared.
fig.1717Prior Alma ii. 41 When arguments too fiercely glare, You calm them with a milder air. 1871L. Stephen Playgr. Europe iii. (1894) 83 The black ribs of the mountains glaring at you through rents in the clouds.
3. trans. To send forth or express with a glare.
1667Milton P.L. vi. 849 Every eye Glar'd lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire. 1758L. Temple Sketches (ed. 2) 83 One of the most insipid Fellows that ever glared weary Stupidity from a large dead Eye. 1791Cowper Iliad ix. 294 Hector glares revenge. 1845Browning Soul's Trag. i. 87 If I could not say it, I glared it at him. 1855Milman Lat. Chr. vi. iii. (1864) III. 460 Two popes glaring defiance at each other from opposite quarters of the city.
4. To reflect with a glare. Also to glare back.
1694Southerne Fatal Marriage v. i. Dram. Wks. 1721 II. 162 All the images Of a long mis-spent life were rising still To glare a sad reflection of my crimes. 1820Byron Mar. Fal. iv. i. 70 Worlds mirror'd in the ocean, goodlier sight Than torches glared back by a gaudy glass.
5. The vb. stem in Comb., as † glare-eye; glare-eyed a., with glaring eyes; glare-worm, a glow-worm (cf. glaze-worm, glass-worm).
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 420 Nitedula..I rather take that word to signifie a glare-worm. 1683Chalkhill Thealma & Cl. 138, I spy'd A Lion running after him glare-eyed, And full of rage. 1711Lond. Gaz. No. 4875/4 Lost..a Strawberry Mare..two glare Eyes. 1847–78Halliwell, Glare-worm, a glow-worm. I. Wight.
▪ V. glare
var. glair n.1; obs. form of glair v. |