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Webster 1913 Edition


Gloze

Gloze

,
Verb.
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.

Gloze

,
Verb.
T.
To smooth over; to palliate.
By
glozing
the evil that is in the world.
I. Taylor.

Gloze

,
Noun.
1.
Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
Now to plain dealing; lay these
glozes
by.
Shakespeare
2.
Specious show; gloss.
[Obs.]
Sir P. Sidney.

Webster 1828 Edition


Gloze

GLOZE

,
Verb.
I.
To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; that is, to smooth, or to talk smoothly.
So glozed the tempter, and his proem tun'd.
A false glozing parasite.

GLOZE

,
Noun.
Flattery; adulation.
1.
Specious show; gloss. [Not used. See Gloss.]