Gloze
Gloze , intransitive verb
[Old English glosen, French gloser. See gloss explanation.]
1.
To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. — Chaucer
A false, glozing parasite.
So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned.
2.
To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret. — Shakespeare
Gloze , transitive verb
To smooth over; to palliate.
By glozing the evil that is in the world.
Gloze , noun
1.
Flattery; adulation; smooth speech.
Now to plain dealing; lay these glozes by.
2.
Specious show; gloss. [Obsolete] — Sir P. Sidney