glare

English

From Middle English glaren, from Old English glærian, from Proto-Germanic *glēzāną. Cognate with dialectal Middle Dutch glariën (“to glisten; sparkle”), Low German glaren (“to shine brightly; glow; burn”), Middle High German glaren (“to shine brightly”). Related to glower, glass.

glare (countable and uncountable, plural glares)

(uncountable) An intense, blinding light.
- Dryden
  the frame of burnished steel that cast a glare
Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
An angry or fierce stare.
- Milton
  About them round, / A lion now he stalks with fiery glare.
(telephony) A call collision; the situation where an incoming call occurs at the same time as an outgoing call.
(US) A smooth, bright, glassy surface.
a glare of ice
A viscous, transparent substance; glair.

light

brilliance

a stare

glare (third-person singular simple present glares, present participle glaring, simple past and past participle glared)

(intransitive) To stare angrily.
He walked in late, with the teacher glaring at him the whole time.
- Byron
  an eye that scorcheth all it glares upon
(intransitive) To shine brightly.
The sun glared down on the desert sand.
- Dryden
  The cavern glares with new-admitted light.
To be bright and intense, or ostentatiously splendid.
- Alexander Pope
  She glares in balls, front boxes, and the ring.
(transitive) To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
- Milton
  Every eye glared lightning, and shot forth pernicious fire.

to stare angrily

shine

glare (comparative more glare, superlative most glare)

glare f (genitive singular glare, plural glaraghyn)

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
glare	ghlare	nglare
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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