different between ablare vs aglare

English

Etymology

a- (“in such a manner”) +? blare (“blaring”)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??bl??/

Adjective

ablare (comparative more ablare, superlative most ablare)

1. Blaring.
   • 1916, Charles Wharton Stork, “Sea Song” in Sea and Bay: A Poem of New England, New York: John Lane, p. 71,^[1]

     He’ll dock with flags a-flutter, bands a-blare.

   • 1959, “Charge!”, Time, 3 August, 1959,^[2]

     Market Street intersections were ablare with car radios tuned to “the game.”

   • 1998, Sam Dillon, “Early Bird Begins Mexico’s 2000 Presidential Race,” New York Times, 11 May, 1998,^[3]

     The tropical night air on Saturday is ablare with the oompahs of a brass band, street lights abuzz with bugs, and thousands of Maya Indian farmers are jammed into a colonial plaza waiting for Vicente Fox Quesada.

References

Anagrams

• Arbela, Barela, arable

English

Etymology

a- (“on, in”) +? glare

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???l??(?)/
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Adjective

aglare (not comparable)

1. (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 […]

   • 1871, Charles Kingsley, At Last: a Christmas in the West Indies, London: Macmillan, Chapter 3, p. 82,^[3]

     Apodaca set fire to his ships […] At least, he would not let them fall into English hands. At three in the morning Port of Spain woke up, all aglare with the blaze six miles away to the north-west.

   • 1898, Henry A. Castle, “The Army Mule” in The Army Mule, and Other War Sketches, Indianapolis: Bowen-Merrill, p. 29,^[4]

     His eye was aglare with hate, every glance a stab.

   • 2009, Thomas Fuller, “A Legendary River Changed by Asian Ambition,” New York Times, 18 December, 2009,^[5]

     Many parts of the Mekong were once a star-gazer’s dream; now nights on the river are increasingly aglare with electricity.

Anagrams

• alegar, laager