gloze

American  

[glohz] / gloʊz /

verb (used with object)

glozed, glozing

1. to explain away; extenuate; gloss over (usually followed byover ).

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verb (used without object)

glozed, glozing

1. Archaic. to make glosses; comment.

noun

1. Archaic. flattery or deceit.

2. Obsolete. a specious show.

gloze British  

/ ɡləʊz /

verb

1. to explain away; minimize the effect or importance of

2. to make explanatory notes or glosses on (a text)

3. to use flattery (on)

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noun

1. flattery or deceit

2. an explanatory note or gloss

3. specious or deceptive talk or action

Other Word Forms

• glozingly adverb
• unglozed adjective

Etymology

Origin of gloze

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French gloser < Medieval Latin glossāre; see gloss ²

Example Sentences

"For illustration, here are some shorties which we'd call real $7 words, and wouldn't use here at this time without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable."

From Time Magazine Archive

Doub′le-gild, to gild with double coatings of gold: to gloze over.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

At dark the old man lit two lamps, which served dimly to gloze the shadows, and thrust logs of wood into the cast-iron stove.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward

The speech of truth is simple, and those things which are just need not wily interpretations; for they have energy themselves; but the unjust speech, unsound in itself, requires cunning preparations to gloze it.

From The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. by Euripides

He looked at the other's two companions, perfect types of the "heeler," burly and with brutally-cunning features, that wore now a gloze of satisfaction in the work that was forward.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Rives, Hallie Erminie