Thesaurus: gloze

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1. v. i. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly.
2. v. i. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret.
3. v. t. To smooth over; to palliate.
4. n. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
5. n. Specious show; gloss.
6. 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. To smooth over; to palliate. By glozing the evil that is in the world. I. Taylor. 1. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech. Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by. Shak. 2. Specious show; gloss. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
7. To smooth over; to palliate.By glozing the evil that is in the world. I. Taylor.
8. v. i. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. v. i. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret. v. t. To smooth over; to palliate. n. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech. n. Specious show; gloss.