gloze

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

GLOZE, verb intransitive To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; that is, to smooth, or to talk smoothly. So glozed the tempter, and his proem tun'd. A false glozing parasite. GLOZE, noun Flattery; adulation. 1. Specious show; gloss. [Not used. See Gloss.]
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