gloze /ɡləʊz/noun 4verb 4forms 3 noun4 •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. — 1855 •appearance.Wear not the mask of Love upon thy face, For fear my eye discern; ’twere better veil The sweet serenity Love’s eye would trace, Than with its gloze to make his visage stale. — 1859 •A specious show, a deceit.Now to plain-dealing; lay these glozes by: Shall we resolve to woo these girls of France? — 1607 •Flattery.[…] if Virtue aught may crave, or Heav’n, Beware, alike, of factious leagues, impure, And courtly glozes vile. — 1803 verb4 •To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.…his contempt for every romantic or sentimental motive that would gloze over real causes, and represent the conduct of human beings rather as we would have it to be than as it is… — 1906 •(literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning: But I will gloze with him. — 1607 •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. — 1594 •To give a shine to (something or someone). formsglozed · glozing · glozes
