Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a glare; glaring.

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  • adjective postpositive Glaring (either verb sense)

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Examples

  • The Wynn Macau looks different from anything around it: The city is aglare in blinking neon, but the only ornamentation on his hotel is a large cursive signature of his last name.

    Macau’s Big Gamble 2007

  • The Wynn Macau looks different from anything around it: The city is aglare in blinking neon, but the only ornamentation on his hotel is a large cursive signature of his last name.

    Macau’s Big Gamble 2007

  • The noise of this brought him up at once, and he stood aglare.

    The Invisible Man Herbert George 2006

  • Tronen saw amber-hued glass spin toward him, aglare like the eye of a cat.

    The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984

  • There was a waving of hands and handkerchiefs from the little station, aglare in the early afternoon sun.

    Different Girls Various

  • Paris they looked back they saw an immense blaze in the distance, and the heavens aglare from east to west with the conflagration.

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • In imagination I can see your great ship, with all its portholes aglare, ploughing across the darkness to America.

    Carry On Letters in War-Time Coningsby Dawson 1921

  • Behind the harbor rose Table Mountain and stretching from it downward to the sea was a land with verdure clad and aglare with the African sun that was to scorch my paths for months to come.

    An African Adventure Isaac Frederick Marcosson 1918

  • It was as though we were lunching in a New York subway station: a great, vaulted, white-tiled room aglare with electric lights.

    Italy at War and the Allies in the West 1918

  • Tradition ever afterwards had it that on the night of the killing he slept -- if he slept at all -- in the full-lighted room of a house which was all aglare with lights from cellar to roof line.

    The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

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