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noun

Glare n.

A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light. "The frame of burnished steel that cast a glare."

A fierce, piercing look or stare. "About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare."

A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.

A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice. (U. S.)

verb

Glare v. t. To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light. "Every eye Glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire."

Glare v. i. (past & past part. glared; pres. part. glaring)

To shine with a bright, dazzling light. "The cavern glares with new-admitted light."

To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely. "And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon."

To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay. "She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring."

adjective

Glare adj. Smooth and bright or translucent; used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice. (U. S.)

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Etymology of 'Glare'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glare" Quotes from Famous Books

... him—rigid and alert. His gaze also went into the west; and he blinked against the white glare of sun and distance, squinting his eyes and scanning the ...

— 'Drag' Harlan • Charles Alden Seltzer

... to the journalist, on the first tier, was next to that which Anna Grossetete had taken. The two intimate friends did not even bow; neither chose to acknowledge the other. At the end of the first act Lousteau left his seat, abandoning Dinah to the fire of eyes, the glare of opera-glasses; while the Baronne de Fontaine and the Comtesse Marie de Vandenesse, who accompanied her, received some of the most distinguished men ...

— Parisians in the Country - The Illustrious Gaudissart, and The Muse of the Department • Honore de Balzac

... on lighting the lamp on her big table. As she stood for a moment full in the glare of it, Helen noticed that she looked ...

— Betty Wales Senior • Margaret Warde

... exalt the monarch of France; we have witnessed the worldwide wars by which Great Britain won and lost vast imperial domains; we have followed the thundering march of Frederick's armies through the Germanies, wasted with war; but we have been blind indeed if the glare of bright helmets and the glamour of courtly diplomacy have hidden from our eyes a phenomenon more momentous than even the growth of Russia or the conquest of New France. It is the rise ...

— A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. • Carlton J. H. Hayes

... night fire hunt. Two persons are indispensable to it. The horseman that precedes, bears on his shoulder what is called a fire pan, full of blazing pine knots, which casts a bright and flickering glare far through the forest. The second follows at some distance, with his rifle prepared for action. No spectacle is more impressive than this of pairs of hunters, thus kindling the forest into a glare. The deer, reposing quietly in his thicket, is awakened by the approaching cavalcade, ...

— The First White Man of the West • Timothy Flint

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