gloze

It was the case of Esau; he was bidden sell his birthright for pottage, and affection could not gloze over the bargain.

One marked aspect of recent devil-fiction is the tendency to gloze over his sins and to humanize him.

You know as well as I that it does not gloze a poor book, nor pass over defects in silence.

The verb to gloss, or gloze, means simply to explain or translate, from Greco-Lat.

It is astonishing the trouble men will be at to find out when to plant potatoes, and gloze over the eternal meaning of the skies.