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Gloze  v. i.  (past & past part. glozed; pres. part. glozing)  
1.
To flatter; to wheedle; to fawn; to talk smoothly. "A false, glozing parasite." "So glozed the tempter, and his proem tuned."
2.
To give a specious or false meaning; to ministerpret.





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... pag. 224. and 225. of this present volume. [Footnote: Original edition.] Of which Authors some affirme the sayd fleet to haue consisted of 4800. others of 4000. some others of 3600. ships: howbeit (if I may presume to gloze vpon the text) I verily thinke that they were not comparable, either for burthen, strength, building, or nimble stirrage vnto the ships of later times, and specially of this age. But howsoeuer it be, they all agree in this, that by meanes of the sayd huge Fleet he was a most puissant prince; ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries - of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe • Richard Hakluyt


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