Complete Definition of "gloze"

English
Noun
gloze

  1. a comment in the margin
  2. flattery
  3. false appearance
  4. extenuate, explain away, gloss over
  5. a specious show, a deceit

Quotations
1978: On a rock orchid, the roundness and gloze / Of a lapith's bum! — Peter Porter, from 'Piero di Cosimo on the Shoalhaven' in The Cost of Seriousness, 1978

Shakespear, William; Prince or Tyre:
ANTIOCHUS.
Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning:
But I will gloze with him. � Young prince of Tyre.

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