glaren.1
/ɡlɛː/, U.S. /ɡlɛ(ə)r/ 1. figurative.1809–10 S. T. Coleridge Friend (1865) 29 Books..looked at through the thick mists of ignorance, or amid the glare of prejudice and passion.1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets viii. 14 There rose this..glare of hope upon Ignatius.1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 66 Who knows if this our René's quick Subsidence from as sudden noise and glare Into oblivion was impolitic.
a. 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [noun] > glare or dazzle
glarec1540
overlight1626
dazzlement1633
dazzle1651
fulgurance1652
glaringness1664
glaring1669
mizmaze1814
bray1929
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5926 All shone his shilde & his shene armur, Glissenond of gold with a glayre hoge.
1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World i. 4 Betwixt 10 and 11 it cleared up... The Glare did not continue long before it rained again.
1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite ii, in Fables 44 The Frame of burnish'd Steel, that cast a Glare From far.
1716 J. Addison tr. Ovid Met. ii. 131 The seat with party-colour'd gems was bright; Apollo shin'd amid the glare of light.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. iii. 320 The frequent glare of the lightning had prevented the explosions from being observed.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 5 The naked Negro, panting at the line..Basks in the glare.
1832 W. Irving Alhambra II. 45 The owl, who hated the glare and bustle of crowded streets [etc.].
1869 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) III. xi. 71 The comet..shone over the land with a fearful glare.
1877 A. B. Edwards Thousand Miles up Nile ii. 36 At a little before midday, when the heat and glare were becoming intolerable.
b. The glistening or shining of some surface.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > lustre or shine from reflected light
orientness1519
lustrec1522
gloss1538
brightshine1573
shine1601
sheen1604
polishing1611
polish1629
oriencya1651
glare1658
glossiness1680
nitency1768
varnish1841
burnishing1851
orience1858
shininess1872
patina1931
1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 86 Wash it over with..Gum-dragon, steeped or dissolved in water, which will set a glare or freshnesse upon the Picture.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Glare, a Glister; also the weak Light of a Comet, Candle, or Glow-worm.
1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi iv. ii. vii. 194/1 What would it avail, if a Man could make a Glare on his Face, by smearing it with some of the Noctiluca's invented by the Modern Chymistry?
1811 J. Parkins Young Man's Best Compan. 550 Take the glare off the copper.
2. figurative. Dazzling or showy appearance; gaudiness; tawdry brilliance.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun]
finesse1549
garishness1598
gaudiness1601
finery1656
glare1706
snobbery1843
flauntiness1854
flashiness1855
shoddyism1865
loudness1881
obtrusiveness1881
floridity1883
flashness1885
orchidacity1897
pizzazz1937
neon1958
snazziness1961
1706 R. Estcourt Fair Example iv. i. 49 I find, that Virtue was but a Glare to blind my Jealousie.
1790 F. Burney Diary 6 May (1842) V. 111 She is a very fine woman..but with rather too much glare, both without and within.
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II i. ix. 7 Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare.
1856 H. 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > fierce or malevolent look
scowl?a1513
glare1667
death stare1818
death glare1819
bad eye1853
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 402 About them round A Lion now he [sc.Satan] stalkes with fierie glare . View more context for this quotation
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth VII. 156 Winged serpents..destroying mankind by a single glare.
1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 48 Mark the fixed gaze, the wild and frenzied glare.
1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. vi. 101 His eyes were hollow and shone with a brilliant and feverish glare.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iv. 450 The glare of his eyes had a fascination for the unhappy victim on whom they were fixed.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
glaren.2
/ɡlɛː/, U.S. /ɡlɛ(ə)r/ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cold weather > [noun] > freezing or frosty weather > frost
frosteOE
glare1567
Jack Frost?1730
ice queen1818
1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 81 v How may Glare and Frost intise a feruent sweate.
1569 G. Turberville Epit., Epigr. (1587) 186 b Eight monthes the Winter dures, The glare it is so great.
b. U.S. A sheet of ice.
ΚΠ
1854 M. Cummins Lamplighter xiii You noticed how everything was covered with ice, this morning..the pavement was..a perfect glare.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
glareadj.
/ɡlɛː/, U.S. /ɡlɛ(ə)r/ U.S.
Smooth and bright or translucent, glassy. Chiefly of ice.
ΚΠ
1856 F. L. Olmsted Journey Slave States 345 A congealed pool of rosin..firm and glair; varying in color, and glistening like polished porphyry.
1859 F. A. Griffiths Artillerist's 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.
1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada iv. 89 Looking down the glare front of ice.
1890 W. P. Lett in Shields Big Game N. Amer. 85 It [the Caribou] then suddenly squats upon its haunches, and slides along the glare-ice.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
glarev.
/ɡlɛː/, U.S. /ɡlɛ(ə)r/ 1.
a. intransitive. To shine with a brilliant or dazzling light. Also of light itself.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > intensity of light > [verb (intransitive)] > be brilliant or dazzling
glarec1250
glore13..
blaze1393
flamec1400
resplendish1479
resplend1492
effulge1736
c1250 Kent. Serm. in Old Eng. Misc. 27 Þet Gold þet is bricht and glareth ine þo brichtnesse of þo sunne [etc.].
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame i. 272 Hyt is not al golde that glareth.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 198/1 Glaryn, or bryghtly shynyn..rutilo.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 568/1 I glare or glystre, as golde dothe, je reluys.
1658 W. Sanderson Graphice 4 Light..It twinckles in a Star; Blazes and glares out in a Comet.
1764 O. Goldsmith Traveller 10 No Zephyr fondly sooths the mountain's breast, But meteors glare, and stormy glooms invest.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion i. 3 Southward, the landscape indistinctly glared Through a pale steam. View more context for this quotation
1839 H. W. Longfellow Hyperion I. i. vii The setting sun glared wildly from the summit of the hills.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 93 Through the fissures..the morning light glared strangely.
1885 Athenæum 23 May 667/1 The whitish dust which glares in the brilliant sunlight of the Dorsetshire coast.
b. figurative. To display oneself ostentatiously; to be obtrusively evident or conspicuous.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > pride > ostentation > make ostentatious display or show off [verb (intransitive)]
brandishc1340
ruffle1484
braga1556
swash1556
flourish1563
flaunt1566
prank1567
prink1573
to shake, wag the feather1581
peacockize1598
air1605
display1608
to launch it out1608
flasha1616
to cut it out1619
flare1633
vapour1652
peacock1654
spark1676
to gallantrize it1693
bosh1709
glare1712
to cut a bosh1726
to show away1728
to figure away, off1749
parade1749
to cut a dashc1771
dash1786
to cut up1787
to cut a flash1795
to make, or cut, a splash1804
swank1809
to come out strong1825
to cut a spludge1831
to cut it (too) fat1836
pavonize1838
splurge1844
to do the grand1847
to cut a swath1848
to cut a splurge1860
to fan out1860
spread1860
skyre1871
fluster1876
to strut one's stuff1926
showboat1937
floss1938
style1968
society > communication > manifestation > [verb (intransitive)] > strikingly
shinec1340
to stand fortha1425
to stick out1612
to stick off1613
to stand offa1616
stare1645
glare1712
to stand out1824
to burn out, forth1834
1712 A. Pope To Young Lady in Misc. Poems 140 She glares in Balls, Front-boxes, and the Ring, A vain, unquiet, glitt'ring, wretched Thing!
a1748 I. Watts Improvem. Mind ii. iii, in Coll. Wks. (1753) V. 332 Though the demonstration glare in their faces.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 216 A writer [sc. Pennant]..whose ungenerous prejudice against the house of Stuart glares in misrepresentation.
1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) I. 128 It is insufficient to say French influence prevails..The fact is—it glares—it is too ostensible and obtrusive.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xi. 174 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.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (intransitive)] > look fiercely
starea1275
glare1609
1609 W. M. Man in Moone F 2 b Mo-ckso..glared vpon me, as if he would haue looked through me.
1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 110 (note) The Hebrews call anger Aph, because therein..the whole man swells like a Toad, and glares like the Devil.
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol iii. 375 She haunts him still, And glares upon him with her haggard Eyes.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 90 And each upon his rival glared.
1859 F. E. Paget Curate of Cumberworth 313 You actually glared on his daughters with a most morose aspect.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust I. xxi. 222 I peeped at the owl in her nest alone: How she stared and glared!
3. transitive. To send forth or express with a glare.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > anger > manifestation of anger > show anger [verb (transitive)] > express with a glare
glare1667
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 849 Every eye Glar'd lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire. View more context for this quotation
1758 J. Armstrong Sketches 83 One of the most insipid Fellows that ever glared weary Stupidity from a large dead Eye.
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. ix. 294 Hector glares revenge.
1846 R. Browning Soul's Trag. in Bells & Pomegranates No. VIII i If I could not say it, I glared it at him.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. vi. iii. 77 Two Popes..glaring defiance at each other from opposite quarters of the city.
4. To reflect with a glare. Also to glare back.
ΚΠ
1694 T. Southerne Fatal Marriage v. i, in 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.
1821 Ld. Byron Marino Faliero (2nd issue) iv. i. 99 Worlds mirror'd in the ocean, goodlier sight Than torches glared back by a gaudy glass.
Compounds
C1. The verb stem in combinations, as †glare-eye.
ΚΠ
1711 London Gaz. No. 4875/4 Lost..a Strawberry Mare..two glare Eyes.
C2.
glare-eyed adj. with glaring eyes.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having
goggle-eyedc1384
well-eyed1483
pink-eyed1519
hollow-eyeda1529
small-eyed1555
great-eyed1558
bird-eyed1564
out-eyed1570
large-eyed1575
full-eyed1581
bright-eyed1590
wall-eyed1590
beetle-eyed1594
fire-eyed?1594
young-eyed1600
open-eyed1601
soft-eyed1606
narrow-eyed1607
broad-eyed?1611
saucer-eyed1612
ox-eyed1621
pig-eyed1655
glare-eyed1683
pit-eyed1696
dove-eyed1717
laughing-eyed1784
almond1786
wide-eyed1789
moon-eyed1790
big-eyed1792
gooseberry-eyed1796
red-eyed1800
unsealed1800
screw-eyed1810
starry-eyed1818
pinkie-eyed1824
pop-eyed1830
bead-eyed1835
fishy-eyed1836
almond-eyed1849
boopic1854
sharp-set1865
bug-eyed1872
beady-eyed1873
bias-eyed1877
blank-eyed1881
gape-eyed1889
glass-eyed1889
stone-eyed1890
pie-eyed1900
slitty-eyed1908
steely-eyed1964
megalopic1985
1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 138 I spy'd A Lion running after him glare-eyed, And full of rage.
glare-worm n. a glow-worm (cf. glaze-worm n. at glaze n. Compounds 2, glass-worm n. at glass n.1 Compounds 3).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Diversicornia > family Lampyridae > lampyris noctiluca (glow-worm)
glow-wormc1320
gold worm?c1475
glowbard?a1500
silver-worm?a1500
glose-worm1519
glass-worm1552
glaze-worm1578
glare-worm1607
night-worm1774
glow-bug1781
fireworm1821
glow-beetle1860
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 542 Nitedula... I rather take that word to signifie a glare worm.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Glare-worm, a glow-worm. I. Wight.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
<
n.1c1540
n.21567adj.1856v.c1250