n. 1. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Specious show; gloss. [ Obs. ] Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Glozed p. pr. & vb. n. Glozing. ] [ OE. glosen, F. gloser. See gloss explanation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

A false, glozing parasite. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To smooth over; to palliate. [ 1913 Webster ]

By glozing the evil that is in the world. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A flatterer. [ Obs. ] Gifford (1580). [ 1913 Webster ]