gloze

1. v. i. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. Source: opted

2. v. i. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret. Source: opted

3. v. t. To smooth over; to palliate. Source: opted

4. n. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech. Source: opted

5. n. Specious show; gloss. Source: opted

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. Source: webster

7. To smooth over; to palliate.By glozing the evil that is in the world. I. Taylor. Source: adambom

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. Source: ecdict

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