Glare (gl&acir;r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glared (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glaring.] [OE. glaren, gloren; cf. AS. glaer amber, LG. glaren to glow or burn like coals, D. gloren to glimmer; prob. akin to E. glass.]
1.
To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
Dryden.
2.
To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon.
Byron.
3.
To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
Pope.
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Glare, v. t.
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
Every eye
Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.
Milton.
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Glare, n.
1.
A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare.
Dryden.
2.
A fierce, piercing look or stare.
About them round,
A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
Milton.
3.
A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
4.
A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice.
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Glare, a. [See Glary, and Glare, n.]
Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice.
[U. S.]<-- used generally of reflections of the sun -->
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