\Gloze\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glozed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Glozing}.] [OE. glosen, F. gloser. See {gloss} explanation.]
1. To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly.
   --Chaucer.
         A false, glozing parasite.            --South.
         So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned.
                                               --Milton.
2. To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret.
   --Shak.

\Gloze\, v. t.
To smooth over; to palliate.
      By glozing the evil that is in the world. --I. Taylor.

\Gloze\, n.
1. Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
         Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by. --Shak.
2. Specious show; gloss. [Obs.] --Sir P. Sidney.