gloze

gloze is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

Definitions

  1. 1.To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret. Shak.
  2. 2.To smooth over; to palliate. By glozing the evil that is in the world. I. Taylor.
  3. 3.Flattery; adulation; smooth speech. Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by. Shak.
  4. 4.Specious show; gloss. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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