gloze Meaning, Definition & Usage

Gloze intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. glosen, F. gloser. See gloss explanation.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Glozed; present participle & verbal noun Glozing
Definitions
  1. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. Chaucer.
    A false, glozing parasite. South.
    So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
  2. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret. Shak.
Gloze transitive verb
Definitions
  1. To smooth over; to palliate.
    By glozing the evil that is in the world. I. Taylor.
Gloze noun
Definitions
  1. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
    Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by. Shak.
  2. Specious show; gloss. Obs. Sir P. Sidney.

Webster 1913