Gloze

Chamber's Twientieth Century Dictionary · 1908 · p. 44

glōz, v.i. to give a false meaning to: to flatter: to wheedle: ( obs. ) to comment.— v.t. to palliate by specious explanation.— n. ( obs. ) an explanation.— n. Glō′zing , flattery, deceit. [See Glo (2).]