▪ I. gloze, n.
(gləʊz)
Forms: 3–7, 9 glose, (4 glos, 5 gloce, gloyse, Sc. glois, gloss, 6 gloase, gloose), 6– gloze. Also gloss n.1
[a. OF. glose, ad. med.L. glōsa, L. glōssa, a word needing explanation, hence later the explanation itself, a. Gr. γλῶσσα, orig. tongue, hence language, foreign language, a foreign or obscure word.]
1. A comment, or marginal note; an exposition; = gloss n.1 1. arch.
| 1340 Hampole Pr. Consc. 4479 Þe glose of þe buke says alswa Þat [etc.]. 1377 Langl. P. Pl. B. xvii. 13 Þe glose was gloriousely writen with a gilte penne. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iii. xxi. (1869) 147 Now vnderstonde it wel, and expownde it as þou wolt, both þe texte and þe glose. 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. V, 36 See nowe howe an euell glose confoundeth the text. 1579 Fenton Guicciard. v. (1599) 212 Making gloses vpon the capitulations past, rather like a Lawyer, then as a king. 1602 Warner Alb. Eng. ix. lii. (1612) 234 That with new Glozes tainte the Text. 1834–43 Southey Doctor Interch. xvii. (1862) 427 It is proper in this glose, commentary or exposition to [etc.]. 1855 Browning Master Hugues Prol., Not a glimpse of the far land Gets through our comments and glozes. |
2. Flattery, deceit; an instance of this, a flattering speech, etc. † to make glose (const. dat.), to talk smoothly or flatteringly to. Now rare.
| c 1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 194/12 Heo, and hire douȝtren also maden hire þe glose. 1297 R. Glouc. (Rolls) 2381 Me it ortrowede & ne leuede noȝt is glose. c 1386 Chaucer Sqr.'s T. 158 This is a verray sooth with outen glose. c 1450 Bk. Curtasye 312 in Babees Bk., Yf any thurgh sturnes þe oppose, Onswere hym mekely and make hym glose. c 1460 Towneley Myst. xxii. 225 Thou has made many glose with thy fals talkyng. 1580 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 368 Women..giue more credit to their own glasses, than mens gloses. 1601 B. Jonson Poetaster iii. v, He..Spurns back the gloses of a fawning spirit. 1674 Blount Glossogr. (ed. 4), Glose, flattery or dissimulation. 1874 J. G. Holland Mistr. Manse ii. iii. 92 No..dainty gloze Could give him pleasure half so fine As that which tingled to her blows. |
b. A pretence, false show, specious appearance; also, a disguise. Now rare.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 26774 Þai com to scrift a glos to make. 1340–70 Alex. & Dind. 1016 Ȝoure fingrus..ȝe fullen wiþ ryngus As is wommenus wone for wordliche glose. 1581 Savile Tacitus' Hist. i. lxxi (1591) 39 This glose of vertues [L. falsæ virtutes] increased men's feare. a 1586 Sidney Arcadia i. (1598) 81 If then a bodily euill in a bodily gloze be not hidden, Shall [etc.]. 1600 Holland Livy i. xxiii. (1609) 16 Gloses, and goodly shews of words. 1649 Bp. Hall Cases Consc. i. (1654) 11 We are naturally too apt..to flatter our⁓selves with fair glozes of bad intentions. 1846 Ruskin Mod. Paint. (1848) I. ii. i. ii. §8. 55 A gloze, whether purposely worn or unconsciously assumed. |
3. = gloss n.1 2 [ad. It. glosa].
| 1823 Roscoe Sismondi's Lit. Eur. (1846) II. xxxvi. 460 We also meet with several gloses or voltas upon a variety of devices or canzonets. |
4. Comb., as gloze-giver.
| c 1449 Pecock Repr. i. xii. 65 Expowners and gloze ȝeuers. |
▪ II. gloze, v.1
(gləʊz)
Forms: 4–6 glose(n, 5 glosin, -yn, 5–6 Sc. glois(s, gloss, 6 gloase, 6– gloze.
[a. F. gloser (12th c.), f. glose gloze n.1 (OE. had glésan to gloss, interpret, f. *glóse, ad. L. glōssa).]
† 1. trans. To make glozes or glosses upon; to discourse upon, expound, interpret. Also, to interpret (a thing) to be (so and so). Obs.
| 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. Prol. 57, I font þere Freres..Glosynge þe Gospel as hem good likeþ. c 1425 Hampole's Psalter Metr. Pref. 23 Rychard Hampole Glosed the sauter that sues here. c 1449 Pecock Repr. i. vi. 31 Hise writingis ouȝten be glosid and be expowned. c 1450 Holland Howlat 35, I haue mekle matir in metre to gloss Of ane nothir sentence. 1453 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) II. 190 Ane English boke of ye Pater Noster, glosid, with Matynes of ye Passion. 1513 Douglas æneis viii. vii. 54 Quhairfor, myne awin hart deyr, Sa far about thou glosis thi mater? 1563 Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. To Rdr., Wks. 1888 I. 56 A werk..cunninglie gloissit be sum weill leirnit and discrete man. 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, i. ii. 40 Which Salike land, the French vniustly gloze To be the Realme of France. 1762 Crazy Tales 76 You may gloze any word. 1820 Scott Monast. v, The church hath her ministers to gloze and to expound the same [the Word]. |
b. absol. or intr. To interpose a gloss or explanation; to comment. Const. on, upon; also in indirect passive.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 384 Clerkis..willen glose here and say [etc.]. c 1385 Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 254 For in pleyn text it nedyth nat to glose. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) iv. xxxvii. 85 No more men maye glosen withouten text than bylde materles. 1566 T. Stapleton Ret. Untr. Jewel iii. 64 He saieth not, Not so rightly, as M. Jewell gloseth. 1581 T. Watson Centurie of Loue xvii. (Arb.) 53 Yf Poets haue done well..To gloze on trifling toyes. 1614 Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 821 Let your Authors glose as they list, Popery is but a yong faction. 1813 Scott Rokeby i. xi, A while he glozed upon the cause, Of Commons, Covenant, and Laws. 1821 Shelley Prometh. Unb. iii. iv. 167 Tomes Of reasoned wrong, glozed on by ignorance. 1872 Browning Fifine xxxi, Gloze No whit on your premiss. |
c. (See quot. and cf. gloze n.1 2.)
| 1837–9 Hallam Hist. Lit. i. ii. §43 In this [the Spanish glosa] a few lines..were glosed, or paraphrased..in a succession of stanzas, so that the leading sentiment should be preserved in each, as the subject of an air runs through its variations. |
2. trans. To veil with specious comments; to palliate; to explain away, extenuate. Frequently with over; † also with out.
| 1390 Gower Conf. I. 84 Telle out and let it nought be glosed. c 1394 P. Pl. Crede 345 Lere me to som man..Þat..gloseþ nouȝt þe godspell. 1509 Barclay Shyp of Folys p iv b, A ryche mannys dede may no man hyde nor glose. a 1536 Tindale Exp. Matt. v–vii. Wks. (1573) 187/2 They that..seeke liberties..to sinne vnpunished, and glose out the lawe of God. a 1541 Wyatt in Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 56 Nor I can not endure the truth to glose. 1548 Hall Chron., Edw. IV, 242 Thus is the league made with Lewes the French kyng, fraudulently glosed and dissimuled. 1586 T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 380 With what impudencie soever the wicked outwardlie gloze their corrupt dealings. 1665 Manley Grotius' Low C. Warres 31 Least he should..give Credit, to a thing so profane and detestable, however glosed over by those malitious People. 1827 Hood Mids. Fairies xcii, Beshrew those sad interpreters of nature, Who gloze her lively universal law. 1845 Whittier Lines Washington vi, With the tongue of flattery glozing deeds which God and Truth condemn. 1878 in N. Amer. Rev. CXXVI. 469 The facts of human iniquity are not disputed, glozed over, or extenuated. 1884 R. Glover in Chr. World 9 Oct. 767/1 It is not charity to gloze over the sins and sorrows of men. |
3. intr. To talk smoothly and speciously; to use fair words or flattering language; to fawn. Sometimes coupled with flatter; also to gloze it. Now rare.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 8401 (Gött.) Neyder i kepe to gabb ne glose. c 1386 Chaucer Merch. T. 1107, I kan nat glose, I am a rude man. c 1400 Destr. Troy 11468 Glose hit not lengur. 1519 Interl. Four Elem. (Percy Soc.) 4 Some to opteyn favour wyll flatter and glose. 1567 R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) H iij b, Painted speache, that gloseth for gayne. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 704 Rogendorff..made as if he would have used only the Hungarians, and glosed with Revalius. 1632 Sanderson 12 Serm. (1637) 606 Let us take heed we doe not gloze with him, as we doe one with another. 1783 Whitehead Ode New Year 11 Ye Nations hear! nor fondly deem Britannia's ancient spirit fled; Or glosing weep her setting beam. 1833 Carlyle Misc. (1857) III. 202 The dog glozed with professions of life-weariness. 1848 Lytton Harold ix. iii, We would not that thou shouldest learn too early how men's tongues can gloze and flatter. 1858 W. Johnson Ionica, Reparabo ii, While my comrades pass away To bow and smirk and gloze. |
† b. quasi-trans. To tell speciously. Obs.—1
| 1608 Rowlands Humors Looking Gl. 15 Vnto the Man he goes, And vnto him this fayned tale doth gloze. |
† c. trans. To clothe (words, etc.) with specious adornment.
| 1430–40 Lydg. Bochas iii. xviii. 90 This sentence is not glosed. 1509, c 1520, 1630 [see glozed ppl. a.]. |
4. trans. To flatter, deceive with smooth talk; to coax, wheedle. Rarely const. to. Obs. exc. arch.
| c 1330 R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 34 Pes forto haue þei glosed him fulle mykelle. c 1386 Chaucer Manciple's Prol. 34 Of me certeyn thou shalt nat been yglosed. c 1420 Pallad. on Husb. iv. 758 [778] Now glose hem feire. c 1440 Jacob's Well (E.E.T.S.) 96 His eem..glosyd him to hym wyth fayre woordys. 1480 Caxton Chron. Eng. xiii. 16 My two doughters glosed me tho and now of me they sette lytel prys. 1540–54 Croke 13 Ps. (Percy Soc.) 21 They that me with tales wold glose, Agaynst me worke the worst they maye. 1555 Abp. Parker Ps. xxxvi. 93 For he himselfe doth glose In hys bewitched eyes. 1829 Carlyle Misc. (1857) II. 61 The parasite glozes his master with sweet speeches. |
▪ III. gloze, v.2 rare.
(gləʊz)
[Of obscure origin; cf. glow v.2]
intr. To look earnestly and fixedly; to gaze with pleasure; to peer.
| 1853 Jerdan Autobiog. IV. vii. 120 The pleasure of seeing oneself in print, [is] only to be estimated by those who have glozed over the type. 1864 Mrs. Lloyd Ladies Polc. 103 That little Preventative fellow up on the cliff, that's al'ays a-glozing out to sea. |
Hence † gloze n., an eager look, a gaze.
| 1654 Gayton Pleas. Notes ii. v. 56 Give a good glose from thy strain'd goggle eye. |
▪ IV. gloze, v.3 rare.
(gləʊz)
[Cf. gloss n.2]
a. intr. To shine brightly, to blaze; also, to gleam. b. trans. To cause to shine. Hence ˈglozing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
| 1820 A. Sutherland St. Kathleen III. 167 Gudewife, carry up a glozin' peat, an' kennel a spunk o' fire in them baith. 1880 L. Wallace Ben-Hur 396 An illusory glozing of the light glimmering dismally. Ibid. 398 The scanty light glosed them with the glory of day. |