glare

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To stare fixedly and angrily. synonym: gaze.
• intransitive verb To shine intensely and blindingly.
• intransitive verb To be conspicuous; stand out obtrusively.
• intransitive verb To express by staring angrily.
• noun A fierce or angry stare.
• noun An intense, blinding light.
• noun Overwhelming attention or intrusiveness.
• noun A sheet or surface of glassy and very slippery ice.

from The Century Dictionary.

• Smooth; slippery; transparent; glassy.
• Another spelling of glair.
• To shine with a strong, bright, dazzling light; be intensely or excessively bright.
• To look with a fierce and piercing stare.
• To be intensely or excessively bright in color; be too brilliantly ornamented; be ostentatiously splendid.
• Synonyms Glare, Glisten, Scintillate, Glister, Glitter, Gleam, Sparkle, Coruscate, Glimmer, Flicker. Glare indicates a steady, dazzling, or painful excess of light; glisten is a popular word, while scintillate is the exact or formal word, for a light that is unequal or is slightly interrupted: as, glistening eyes, dew, stars; scintillating stars. Scintillate is also used for the throwing off of sparkles: as, the scintillating iron at the forge. Glisten represents a softer, and glitter a harder, light than glister, glitter implying a cold, metallic ray: as, glittering bayonets: “all is not gold that glitters.” Gleam stands for a small but generally steady and pleasant light, a long ray: as, the light gleamed through the keyhole; hope gleamed upon him. Sparkle represents a hard light that seems to be emitted irregularly in ignited particles or visible parts: as, sparkling diamonds, eyes, wit. Coruscate expresses a rapid throwing off of vivid or brilliant flashes of light, as in the aurora borealis or by a revolving piece of fireworks. Glimmer represents a faint and unsteady light: as, stars glimmering through the mist. Flicker goes further, and suggests, as glimmer does not, a probable extinction of the light: as, a flickering taper. See flame, n., and radiance.
• To shoot out or emit, as a dazzling light.
• noun A strong, bright, dazzling light; clear, brilliant luster or splendor that dazzles the eyes; especially, a confusing and bewildering light.
• noun A fierce, piercing look.
• noun A stretch of ice; an icy condition.
• noun Synonyms Flare, etc. See flame, n.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To shine with a bright, dazzling light.
• intransitive verb To look with fierce, piercing eyes; to stare earnestly, angrily, or fiercely.
• intransitive verb To be bright and intense, as certain colors; to be ostentatiously splendid or gay.
• transitive verb To shoot out, or emit, as a dazzling light.
• adjective United States Smooth and bright or translucent; -- used almost exclusively of ice.
• noun A bright, dazzling light; splendor that dazzles the eyes; a confusing and bewildering light.
• noun A fierce, piercing look or stare.
• noun A viscous, transparent substance. See Glair.
• noun U. S. A smooth, bright, glassy surface.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun uncountable An intense, blinding light.
• noun Showy brilliance; gaudiness.
• noun An angry or fierce stare.
• noun telephony A call collision; when an incoming call occurs at the same time of an outgoing call.
• verb intransitive To stare angrily.
• verb intransitive To shine brightly.
• adjective US smooth and bright or translucent; glary

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted
• verb be sharply reflected
• noun an angry stare
• noun a focus of public attention
• verb look at with a fixed gaze
• verb shine intensely