To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. Chaucer. A false, glozing parasite. South. So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton.
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.
Flattery; adulation; smooth speech. Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by. Shak.
Specious show; gloss. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.
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