Gloze (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glozed(?); p. pr. & vb. n. Glozing.] [OE. glosen, F. gloser. See gloss explanation.]
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.
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Gloze, v. t.
To smooth over; to palliate.
By glozing the evil that is in the world.
I. Taylor.
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Gloze, n.
1.
Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by.
Shak.
2.
Specious show; gloss.
[Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.
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