gloze

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A comment in the margin

   A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.

   • So we o’ershroud stars and roses, Cherub and trophy and garland. Nothings grow something which quietly closes Heaven’s earnest eye,—not a glimpse of the far land Gets through our comments and glozes.
   • The relation of certain words in the original to the practice of my translation may require gloze.
2. 2

   Flattery.

   • […] if Virtue aught may crave, or Heav’n, Beware, alike, of factious leagues, impure, And courtly glozes vile.
   • No tender word or dainty gloze Could give him pleasure half so fine As that which tingled to her blows.
3. 3

   appearance.

   • Himself, he hints, is ever in the throes Of some grim struggle for his Self’s control. M’Corkle lies. He never fought. Speech is his rôle. He’s putty, and his holiness all gloze.
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   1. 4

      A specious show, a deceit.

      • Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by: Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France?
   2. 5

      To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.

      • Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning: But I will gloze with him.
   3. 6

      To use flattering language.

      • […] looke to see the throne where you should sit, To floate in bloud, and at thy wanton head, The glozing head of thy base minion throwne.
      • So gloz’d the Tempter, and his Proem tun’d; Into the Heart of Eve his words made way,
      • 1810, Joanna Baillie, The Family Legend: A Tragedy, Act 5, Scene 2, pages 126-127. As he pretended, struck, then stern and silent, Till presently assuming, like his father, A courtesy minute and over-studied, He glozed us with his thanks:
   4. 7

      To smooth over

      To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.

   5. 8

      To give a shine to (something or someone).

      • The scanty light glozed them with the glory of day, and, forgetful of pain and thirst and hunger, and of the menace of death, they sank upon the floor and cried, keeping fast hold of each other the while.

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