Hypertext Webster Gateway: "glozing"

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.


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