Glare /(glâr)/

Glare

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Glared; p. pr. & vb. n. Glaring

  1. To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
    The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
  2. To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
    And eye that scorcheth all it glares upon.
  3. To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
    She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.

Glare

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

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.
  2. A fierce, piercing look or stare.
    About them round, A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
  3. A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
  4. A smooth, bright, glassy surface; as, a glare of ice. [U. S.]

Glare

a.
  1. Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice; as, skating on glare ice. [U. S.]