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Source: gcide
Glare \Glare\, n.
1. A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes;
a confusing and bewildering light.

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The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare.
--Dryden.

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2. A fierce, piercing look or stare.

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About them round,
A lion now he stalks with fiery glare. --Milton.

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3. A viscous, transparent substance. See {Glair}.

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4. A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice. [U.
S. ]

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Source: gcide
Glare \Glare\, a. [See {Glary}, and {Glare}, n.]
Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively
of ice; as, skating on glare ice. [U. S.]

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Source: gcide
Glare \Glare\, v. t.
To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.

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Every eye
Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.
--Milton.

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Source: gcide
Glare \Glare\ (gl[^a]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glared}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Glaring}.]
[OE. glaren, gloren; cf. AS. gl[ae]r
amber, LG. glaren to glow or burn like coals, D. gloren to
glimmer; prob. akin to E. glass.]

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1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light.

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The cavern glares with new-admitted light. --Dryden.

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2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly,
angrily, or fiercely.

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And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon. --Byron.

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3. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be
ostentatiously splendid or gay.

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She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
--Pope.

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