1754. Discoveries of John Poulter, p. 43. Undub the Jeger and jump the glaze.
1857. Snowden, Mag. Assistant (3rd ed.), p. 445. A window, glaze.
c. 1830. Finish to Tom and Jerry [1872], p. 82. A random shot milling the glaze.
Verb (old).—To cheat at cards. See quot. and Glass-work.
1821. P. Egan, Real Life, I., 297. If you take the broads in hand in their company, you are sure to be work’d, either by glazing, that is, putting you in front of a looking glass, by which means your hand is discovered by your antagonist, or by private signals from the pal. [[153]]
To mill (or star a glaze), verb. phr. (old).—To break a window.
1823. Moncrieff, Tom and Jerry, iii., 2. Jerry. What are you about, Tom? Tom. I’m going to mill the glaze—I’ll——(Is about to break the glass, when Kate and Sue appear as the Miss Trifles.).
1823. Jon Bee, Dict. of the Turf. Glaze, s.v., to mill the glaze, the miller may adopt a stick or otherwise, as seems most convenient.
On the glaze, adv. phr. (thieves’).—Robbing jewellers’ shops by smashing the windows. See Glazier.
1724–34. C. Johnson, Highwaymen and Pyrates, q.v.