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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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blindation
† blinˈdation Obs. [f. blind n. + -ation: cf. starvation.] = blinding, blind n. 4–6.1588 J. Harvey Discoursive Probl. 52 The pretended cloke of Incubus, or such like glozing blindation. 1617 Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. vii. 260 That's the blindation. a 1734 North Exam. i. iii. ¶106. 196 These Authors.....
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Henry Brougham Farnie
judgment of The Pall Mall Gazette: "He had little or no original talent or literary faculty, but an immense knack of vamping up French opera bouffes, glozing
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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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candied
candied, ppl. a. (ˈkændɪd) Also 7 canded, 7–8 candid. [f. candy v. + -ed1.] 1. Preserved or incrusted with sugar.1616 R. C. Times' Whis. vi. 2771 Marmalade, Candid eringoes, & rich marchpaine stuff. 1620 Venner Via Recta vi. 106 Candied ginger. 1712 tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 151 Candied Orange Peel...
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coggle
▪ I. coggle, n.1 Obs. or dial. (ˈkɒg(ə)l) Forms: 5 cogill, cogyl, coggul, 7 cogle, 7– coggle. [known only from 14th c.; possibly from a root *kug- with the sense ‘rounded lump’, cf. Ger. kugel, Du. kōgel; but this is doubtful. The parallelism in form and sense to cobble suggests onomatopœic formatio...
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smooth-faced
smooth-faced, a. [f. smooth a. 15.] 1. Of persons: Having a face free from hair, wrinkles, etc.; clean-shaven, beardless.? c 1580 in Nichols Topographer II. 400 Thomas Myeld in whight armours faire, and smooth-fased. 1591 Troub. Raigne K. John xi. 42 A smooth-facte Nunne is all the Abbots wealth. 16...
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parget
▪ I. parget, n. (ˈpɑːdʒɪt) Also 5–7 pariet (i = j), 6 -ette, 6 pergit, 7 parjet. [app. f. parget v. (or from same source).] 1. Plaster spread upon a wall, ceiling, etc.; whitewash; roughcast; in mod. dial. spec. a plaster made of lime and cow-dung with which the flues of chimneys are lined.13.. E.E....
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roughcast
▪ I. rough-cast, roughcast, ppl. a. and n. (ˈrʌfkɑːst, -æ-) Also 7 ruff-cast. [f. rough adv. and a. See cast v. 57, 45, and n. 25.] I. 1. a. ppl. a. Of walls, etc.: Roughly coated with a mixture of lime and gravel.1519 W. Horman Vulg. 241 Some men wyll haue theyr wallys plastered, some pergetted.., ...
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horsehair
horsehair (ˈhɔːshɛə(r)) a. A hair from the mane or tail of a horse. animated horsehair = horsehair worm: see c.1387 Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 323 A briȝt swerd and a scharp euene aboue his heued by an hors here. 1422 tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. (E.E.T.S.) 155 Nothynge the Swerde held, Saue oo...
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false
▪ I. false, a., adv., and n. (fɔːls, fɒls) Forms: 1–7 fals, (3 Orm. falls, 4 falsse, 3–4 vals(e), 4–7 falce, (5 fauce, 6 falls, faulse, fawse), 8–9 Sc. fause, 7, 9 dial. fause, -sse, 3– false. [late OE. fals adj. and n., ad. L. fals-us false (neut. fals-um, used subst. in sense fraud, falsehood), or...
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