inglaze

Inglaze is an English verb that appears chiefly in historical texts related to crafts such as ceramics and glasswork. It denotes the action of coating a surface with a glaze or glazing material. In some regional or older sources, inglaze can also refer to the process of installing or fixing glass into a frame, though this sense is less common today and is often described with more specific terms in modern usage.

Etymology and variants are limited in documentation. The word is typically treated as an inflected form of a root related to glaze, with variant spellings such as inglaze, englaze, or inglaize found in various historical glossaries and trade dictionaries. The emergence of the term is usually placed in the context of traditional craft practices where glaze served both decorative and protective functions on ceramic wares or glass objects.

Usage and context. In ceramics, inglazing generally describes applying a glaze coating to a pottery piece, which may then be fired to produce a sealed, glasslike surface. In the context of glass and window making, inglaze is sometimes encountered in older architectural or carpentry texts as a description of securing glass within a frame, though contemporary terminology favors more specific phrases such as glazing or glazing-in.

See also: englaze, glaze, glazing, window glazing, ceramics.