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.