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gloze
▪ 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 languag...
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Starting in the 14th century, a gloze in the English language was a marginal note or explanation, borrowed from French glose, which comes from
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Words that rhyme with close include nose, dose, rose, gross, froze, gloze, pose, gose, hose and tose. Find more rhyming words at wordhippo.com!
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disglose
† disˈglose, v. Obs. rare. [f. dis- 5 + glose, gloze v.] To beguile or deceive thoroughly.1565 Darius (1860) 23 Surely my eyes do dysglose If yonder I do not see hym commynge.
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glozed
† glozed, ppl. a. Obs. [f. gloze v.1 + -ed1.] In senses of the vb.: Provided with glosses, commented on; speciously adorned; specious.1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 303 What lede leyueþ þat ich lye loke in þe sauter glosed. 1483 Caxton Cato 2 b, He sayd that he helde Cathon glosed for the best boke of h...
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glozing
▪ I. glozing, vbl. n. (ˈgləʊzɪŋ) [f. gloze v.1 + -ing1.] The action of the vb. gloze. 1. a. The action of glossing or commenting; exposition, interpretation. Also concr. a gloss, a comment. b. The action of glossing or explaining away; extenuation, palliation.c 1340 Cursor M. 26095 (Fairf.) To make ...
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yglosed
yglewed, yglosed etc., ME. pa. pples. of glue, gloze v.1, etc.
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glose-worm
† ˈglose-worm Obs. rare. Also glouse-. [? app. an alteration of glow-worm. Cf. gloze v.3, gloss n.2; also glass-worm, glaze-worm.] = glow-worm.1519 W. Horman Vulg. 108 A flye or a worme called a glouberde, or a glouse worme. 1589 R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1860) 21 Changeable coloured vrchins, which can g...
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glozer
† ˈglozer Obs. Forms: 4 glosour, 4–5 glosar(e, 4–7 gloser, (6 glosier), 7– glozer. [f. gloze v.1 + -er1; after OF. gloseor.] 1. One who writes glosses; a commentator.1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 284 Falce gloseris maken goddis lawe derk. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 199/2 Glosare of textys, glosator. 1565 Jewel D...
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