Definitions for glozes

glozes gloze

Spelling: [glohz]
IPA: /gloʊz/

Glozes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in glozes (eglosz).

Definitions for glozes

noun

  1. Archaic. flattery or deceit.
  2. Obsolete. a specious show.

verb (used with object)

  1. to explain away; extenuate; gloss over (usually followed by over).

verb (used without object)

  1. Archaic. to make glosses; comment.

Origin of glozes

1250-1300; Middle English Old French gloser Medieval Latin glossāre; see gloss2

Examples for glozes

Any attempt to gloze the situation, he felt, would be futile.

You see, gloze it over as they may, one thing is clear, it is finished with England.

But if you had made a study of faces, your second glance would have cut through that gloze of oily, apologetic appeal.

I would not gloze my crime, nor do I know How to address your worships.

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

He knew his father never cared for him, though his mother tried her best to gloze over the indifference of her husband.

Official attempts to gloze over the incident would have been amusing if they were not pathetic.

It would be, of course, possible to refine on and gloze over certain points of the teaching.

But every one knew that she was a usurper—a fact which no personal merits could gloze over.

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.

Word Value for glozes
Scrable

15

Words with friends

17

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