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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

Glaring adj. Clear; notorious; open and bold; barefaced; as, a glaring crime.

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Etymology of 'Glaring'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glaring" Quotes from Famous Books

... regular tomboy, with pranks invented by herself, from ideas which she picked up in traveling: for instance, she would choose her moment and chuck a piece of bacon among the Mohammedans sitting under her window; and she would revel in her own fright at those furious faces suddenly glaring up at her from below! And she would stand with drooping head, one finger in ...

— The Bill-Toppers • Andre Castaigne

... open up a curious field of research if one had time enough to enter upon it. The monotony of our life is not broken by many incidents. Tennyson's poem of the 'Lotus-Eaters' suits us well, as we move noiselessly through this polished sea, on which the great eye of the sun is glaring down from above. We passed a ship yesterday with all sails set. This was an event; to-day a butterfly made its appearance. In two days I may be forming decisions on which the well-being of thousands of our ...

— Letters and Journals of James, Eighth Earl of Elgin • James, Eighth Earl of Elgin

... lasting as those colours may they shine, Free as thy stroke, yet faultless as thy line; New graces yearly like thy works display, Soft without weakness, without glaring gay; Led by some rule, that guides, but not constrains; And finish'd more through happiness than pains, The kindred arts shall in their praise conspire, One dip the pencil, and one string the lyre. Yet should the Graces all thy ...

— Hazlitt on English Literature - An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature • Jacob Zeitlin

... with a gayety that bespoke a different sort of announcement, mounted the model stand in the middle of the room, and rapped loudly for attention. Miss Jinny had vainly tried to grab his sleeve as he slipped past her and now stood with an expression of grim martyrdom glaring at Mr. Spicer, who was smiling at her openly ...

— Miss Pat at School • Pemberton Ginther

... him out over the desert. Chaotic desolation stretched from them on either hand, flaming and glaring with the afternoon heat. There was the brazen sky and the leagues upon leagues of alkali, leper white. There was nothing more. They were in the heart ...

— McTeague • Frank Norris

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