gloze

"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

Beshrew those sad interpreters of nature, Who gloze her lively universal law, As if she had not form'd our cheerful feature To be so tickled with the slightest straw!

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood

Why should we gloze and flatter, to be proved Liars hereafter?

From Oedipus Trilogy by Francis Storr

I would not gloze my crime, nor do I know How to address your worships.

From The Scarlet Stigma A Drama in Four Acts by James Edgar Smith

He looked at the other's two companions, perfect types of the "heeler," burly and with brutally-cunning features, that wore now a gloze of satisfaction in the work that was forward.

From The Long Lane's Turning by Hallie Erminie Rives

A lie is a lie, be it told in never so good a cause; a thing deplorable and not to be glozed over or boasted of after the fact.

From The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by Francis Lynde

"I surely should have lost every claim to your good opinion if I had glozed it over and passed it by for personal reasons," Baynell argued after Ashley had gone.

From The Storm Centre by Mary Noailles Murfree

He glozed the matter thus: he had persuaded the owner it was better to take a good tenant at a moderate loss, than to let the Bijou be uninhabited during the present rainy season.

From A Simpleton by Charles Reade

By comparison, the Past, though glozed beyond all semblance of truth, is a clinging heritage of canonised ignorance, brutality and baseness; a drag rather than a stimulus.

From Such Is Life by Joseph Furphy

For Shelley laws are “obscure records of dark and barbarous echos,” “tomes of reasoned wrong glozed on by ignorance.”

From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by Daniel J. MacDonald

Everywhere in art and literature that we meet the devil or his minions, they are tempting and glozing and generally making themselves tricky.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith

Here are no sons of Atreus nor glozing Ulysses.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Nor gold leaf nor tool is employed without, but within how many fallacies are enveloped in glozing words; the gold leaf has its representative in "legal fiction;" and as for "tooling" there's plenty of that!

From Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life by Samuel Lover

Let it suffice him, that he wrong'd me once, Deceived me once, henceforth his glozing arts Are lost on me.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper

But unless ye bring The burier, without glozing ye shall tell, Craven advantage clearly worketh bane.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles