gloze

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From Time Magazine Archive

At dark the old man lit two lamps, which served dimly to gloze the shadows, and thrust logs of wood into the cast-iron stove.

From The Blazed Trail by White, Stewart Edward

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

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

From The Story of an Untold Love by Ford, Paul Leicester

He did not stoop to gloze his own monumental flippancy.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie