Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.

Gloze \Gloze\, v. t.
   To smooth over; to palliate.

         By glozing the evil that is in the world. --I. Taylor.

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.