aglare

== English == === Etymology === From a- (“on, in”) +‎ glare. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈɡlɛə/ (General American) IPA(key): /əˈɡlɛɹ/ (General Australian) IPA(key): /əˈɡleː/ (New Zealand, without the cheer–chair merger) IPA(key): /əˈɡleə/ (New Zealand, cheer–chair merger) IPA(key): /əˈɡliə/ (Scotland) IPA(key): /əˈɡleɹ/ (Lancashire, fair–fur merger) IPA(key): /əˈɡlɜː(ɹ)/ Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ) === Adjective === aglare (not comparable) (postpositive) Glaring (either verb sense) 1712, Ambrose Philips, The Distrest Mother, Act V, in The New English Theatre, London: J. Rivington & Sons, 1776, Volume 6, p. 45,[1] A ghastly figure, full of gaping wounds, His eyes aglare, his hair all stiff with blood, 1728, James Ralph, “The Muses’ Address to the King: an Ode” in Miscellaneous Poems, London: W. Meadows et al., 1729, p. 4,[2] So, when the providential eye of heav’n’s, Not seen to blaze With dreadful majesty aglare, And vengeance sleeps, mankind Pursues its darling joys, and mocks The pow’r divine […] === Anagrams === alegar, laager