glazed

Pluralglazeds

1. 1
   coatedadjective

   Covered with a glaze, a thin coating such as the sweet layer on a ham or a doughnut.

   The bakery's glazed cinnamon rolls sell out by nine every morning.

   A row of glazed clay planters lined the steps of the potter's studio.

   Similariced

2. 2
   glass windowsadjective

   Having glass fitted in the windows.

   The old barn became a studio with a fully glazed south wall.

   The front of the cafe is glazed from floor to ceiling.

   Note

   Builders call any glass set into a frame glazing, and glazed describes whatever has it, which reaches well beyond windows: a bus shelter with glazed sides and rear, a glazed door, a garden shed or a whole wall. Compounds measure how much: a double-glazed window has two panes with a sealed gap between them, and a fully glazed front is mostly glass.

3. 3
   blank stareadjective

   Of the eyes, glassy and unfocused, with a dull, lifeless look.

   By the end of the budget meeting, half the room was staring ahead with glazed eyes.

   Her eyes were glazed with fever, and she barely knew where she was.

   Similarglassy, vacant, blank, unfocused

   Note

   The look it names is the coated sense moved to the face: eyes that shine as if a glassy film lay over them, yet take nothing in. Boredom and fever both produce it, and the word describes the look rather than its cause. Norman Lindsay's Age of Consent (1938) gives a glutton an eye "glazed to all intrusion", shut against everything but his food.

4. 4
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of glaze.

   The potter glazed each bowl by hand before firing it again.

   The old back porch has been glazed to make a sunny reading room.

   Note

   The verb is regular, so one spelling does both jobs: the simple past (she glazed the pot; his eyes glazed over) and the past participle after have or be (the windows have been glazed). Before a noun the participle often settles into an adjective, as in the coated sense (a glazed ham) or the sense for eyes.

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