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▪ I. glary, a.1|ˈglɛərɪ| [f. glare n.1 + -y1.] Full of glare; dazzling, glaring. Hence ˈglariness.
1632Vicars æneid viii. 241 Chopt from the neck, whose gogling glarie eyes, Rouling in rage, beholders stupifies. 1659Beale in Boyle's Wks. (1772) VI. 135, I know, that bright crystal glass is glary; and to avoid that glariness, our artificers run into the other extreme. 1816L. Hunt Rimini i. 186 Purple smearings, with a velvet light, Rich from the glary yellow, thickening bright. 1866[see flary a.]. 1883Burton & Cameron To Gold Coast I. iv. 113 A garden, formerly dusty, glary, and dreary. ▪ II. glary, a.2|ˈglɛərɪ| [f. glare n.2 + -y1; cf. glare a.] †a. Icy, frozen (obs.). b. U.S. Smooth and slippery.
1569Turberv. Epit., etc. (1587) 186 b, For in the winter time, so glarie is the ground: As neither grasse nor other graine in pastures may be found. 1854Lowell Jrnl. in Italy Prose Wks. 1890 I. 137 Behind, a glary slope invited me constantly to slide over the horse's tail. |