Gloze /(?)/
Gloze
v. i.
imp. & p. p. Glozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glozing
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To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly.
A false, glozing parasite.
So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned.
- To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret.
Gloze
v. t.
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To smooth over; to palliate.
By glozing the evil that is in the world.
Gloze
n.
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Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by.
- Specious show; gloss. [Obs.]