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Gloze

Glōze, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. [imp. & p. p. GLOZED; p. pr. & vb. n. GLOZING.] [A-S. glōse, gloss, interpretation, glē-san, to gloze. Cf. GLOSS.]

Sense 1. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. “A false, glazing paradise.” South.

So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.

Sense 2. To give a specious or false meaning; to misinterpret. Shak.

verbtransitive

v. t. To smooth over; to put a fair face on; to palliate or extenuate. “By glozing the evil that it is in the world.” I. Taylor.

noun

n. 1. Flattery; adulation. “Lay these glozes by.” Shak.

Sense 2. Specious show; gloss. [Obs.] Sidney.