gloze (plural glozes)
A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.
Flattery.
(False) appearance.
A specious show, a deceit.
gloze (third-person singular simple present glozes, present participle glozing, simple past and past participle glozed)
(literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
To use flattering language.
To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.
To give a shine to (something or someone).
• See also flattery
• Goelz
Source: Wiktionary
Gloze, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glozed(); p. pr. & vb. n. Glozing.] Etym: [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.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
