gloze

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"For illustration, here are some shorties which we'd call real $7 words, and wouldn't use here at this time without explanation: adit, erg, ergo, ohm, gloze, cozen, griff, modal, mure, snash, viable."

From Time Magazine Archive

I wish to gloze over nothing; I did not make my own nature, and in these pages I describe it as it was and is without palliation or excuse.

From Doctor Therne by Haggard, Henry Rider

It seems to comfort their evil consciences, to use good words; and to gloze over bad deeds with holy texts, wrested to their purpose.

From Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry by Pike, Albert

The verb to gloss, or gloze, means simply to explain or translate, from Greco-Lat. glossa, tongue; but, under the influence of the unrelated gloss, superficial lustre, it has acquired the sense of specious interpretation.

From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Weekley, Ernest

He did not stoop to gloze his own monumental flippancy.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie