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glazy, a.|ˈgleɪzɪ|
[f. glaze n. or v. + -y1; in part perh. a survival of glasy: see glassy.]
†1. = glassy a. 1 b. Obs.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 284 The eies of a horsse..see perfectly in the night; yet their colour varieth as it doth in men, according to the caprine and glazie humour.
2. a. Glass-like, glassy, glittering like glass. b. Resembling a glaze; having the smooth shiny appearance of a glaze or glazed surface.
1724Ramsay Tea-t. Misc. (1733) II. 129 The finny squadrons are content, To leave their wat'ry element, In glazie numbers down they bent. 1768W. Donaldson Sir Bart. Sapskull I. 132 Divine miracles, beautifully and ingeniously delineated in those glazy ornaments [Dutch tiles]. 1786Burns To Auld Mare ii, I've seen thee dappl't, sleek, an' glaizie. 1811Self Instructor 527 Your paper is to be perfectly dry, otherwise the work will appear glazy. 1870M. Bridgman Ro. Lynne II. xiv. 291 The hat so glazy and knowing. 1873Spon Workshop Rec. Ser. i. 360 A better [india-rubber] solution is obtained..by not shaking, but drawing off the clear glazy liquid.
c. glazy iron (see quot.).
1881Raymond Mining Gloss. s.v. Iron, So-called silver⁓gray, glazy, or carbonized iron is usually an iron rendered brittle by excess of silicon.
3. Of the eye or its gaze: = glassy a. 2.
1838Eliza Cook Melaia xxi. 10 His eyeballs had a glazy beam. 1880J. Hatton 3 Recruits I. i. iii. 61 They had something of the serpent in their glazy stare.
Hence ˈglazily adv.; ˈglaziness.
1708Phil. Trans. XXVI. 130 Which in the evaporating of the Water, were coagulated upon the first mentioned clear Salts, and so eclipsed the shining or glaziness of those Salts. 1825Ann. Reg. 239* The pupils of his eyes are large..but..there is a glaziness in the sight. 1858Faber Spir. Confer. (1870) 412 The wild enquiring eye so glazily fixed upon us. |