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Glare   /glɛr/   Listen
noun
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.)


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)  
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."


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





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"Glare" Quotes from Famous Books



... horses, too, stood absolutely still. Men and animals might have been petrified figures, carved out of the desolation about them. There was a something impressive about them as they stood there in the midst of the desert glare. Silent, hawk-like, and intent. Their very poses seemed to convey a ...
— The Girl Aviators on Golden Wings • Margaret Burnham
... observes that, like Milton in his blindness, Bunyan in his imprisonment had his spiritual perception made all the brighter by his exclusion from the glare of the outside world. And of the great debt of gratitude we all owe to "the wicked tinker of Elstow" Dean Stanley has spoken so truly that I am fain to quote his words: "We all need to be cheered by the help of Greatheart and Standfast ...
— The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac • Eugene Field
... wolf? Only six here," breathed Mooka, looking timidly all around, fearing to find the steady glare of green eyes fixed upon them from the shadow ...
— Northern Trails, Book I. • William J. Long
... a straight line toward the village. We find a ragged little street, and attract the usual waiting audience of Arcadians, and drawing up before the door of the inn are glad to escape for a time from the outside heat and glare. ...
— A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees • Edwin Asa Dix
... strictest sense inspired. His human personality is for the time being in abeyance, and he is merely the mouthpiece of the powerful spirit which has temporarily taken possession of his body and speaks with his voice. The possession is indeed painfully manifest. His eyes glare, foam bursts from his mouth, his limbs writhe, his whole body is convulsed. These are the workings of the mighty spirit shaking and threatening to rend the frail tabernacle of flesh. This form ...
— The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead, Volume I (of 3) • Sir James George Frazer


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