Definitions for gloze
gloʊzgloze

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. glozenoun

   A comment in the margin.

2. glozenoun

   Flattery.

3. glozenoun

   False appearance.

4. glozenoun

   A specious show, a deceit.

5. glozeverb

   To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Glozenoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. Flattery; insinuation.

   Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by. William Shakespeare.

   2. Specious show; gloss.

   Precious couches full oft are shaked with a fever;
   If then a bodily evil in a bodily gloze be not hidden,
   Shall such morning dews be an ease to the heat of a love’s fire? Philip Sidney, b. i.

2. To Glozeverb

   Etymology: glesan, Saxon.

   1. To flatter; to wheedle; to insinuate; to fawn.

   Man will hearken to his glozing lies,
   And easily transgress. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. iii.

   So gloz’d the tempter, and his proem tun’d:
   Into the heart of Eve his words made way. John Milton, Par. Lost.

   A false glozing parasite would call his foolhardiness valour, and then he may go on boldly, because blindly, and by mistaking himself for a lion, come to perish like an ass. South.

   Now for a glozing speech,
   Fair protestations, specious marks of friendship. Phillips.

   2. To comment. This should be gloss.

   Which Salique land the French unjustly gloze
   To be the realm of France. William Shakespeare, Henry V.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Glozeverb

   to flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly

2. Glozeverb

   to give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret

3. Glozeverb

   to smooth over; to palliate

4. Glozenoun

   flattery; adulation; smooth speech

5. Glozenoun

   specious show; gloss

6. Etymology: [OE. glosen, F. gloser. See gloss explanation.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gloze

   glōz, v.i. to give a false meaning to: to flatter: to wheedle: (obs.) to comment.—v.t. to palliate by specious explanation.—n. (obs.) an explanation.—n. Glō′zing, flattery, deceit. [See Gloss (2).]

How to pronounce gloze?

1. Alex

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   David

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   Mark

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   Daniel

   British

   Libby

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   Mia

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   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

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   Natasha

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   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

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   Neerja

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   Zira

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   Oliver

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   Wendy

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   Fred

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   Tessa

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of gloze in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of gloze in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gloze
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=gloze
3. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gloze
4. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=gloze