Hypertext Webster Gateway: "gloze"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gloze \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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gloze \Gloze\, v. t.
To smooth over; to palliate.
By glozing the evil that is in the world. --I. Taylor.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gloze \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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