Gloze /(?)/

Gloze

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Glozed; p. pr. & vb. n. Glozing

  1. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly.
    A false, glozing parasite.
    So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned.
  2. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret.

Gloze

v. t.
  1. To smooth over; to palliate.
    By glozing the evil that is in the world.

Gloze

n.
  1. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
    Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by.
  2. Specious show; gloss. [Obs.]