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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Gloze \Gloze\, v. t. To smooth over; to palliate. By glozing the evil that is in the world. --I. Taylor. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Gloze \Gloze\, n. 1. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech. Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by. --Shak. 2. Specious show; gloss. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Gloze \Gloze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glozed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Glozing}.] [OE. glosen, F. gloser. See {gloss} explanation.] 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. | |
