glory

i. & t. [O. Fr. glorier, from Lat. glor ior to boast; Sp. & Port. gloriar; Ital. gloriare.] [GLORY, 8. ] A. Intransitive : 1. To boast; to feel pride. "This title of Freeholder is what I most glory in, and what most effectually calls to my mind the happine of that government under which I live."- Add is on : Free. holder. *2. To exult with joy; to rejoice. "Both glorying to have scapt the Stygian flood." Milton: P. L., 1. 299. *B. Trans.: To make glorious; to glorify; to give glory to. That gloried Venus." "The troop Greene: Looking - gla , p. 118. Crabb thus discriminates between to glory and to boast: "To glory is to hold as one's glory . To boast is to set forth to one's advantage. To glory is more particularly the act of the mind, the indulgence of the internal sentiment: to boast denotes rather the expre ion of the sentiment. To glory is applied only to matters of moment; boast is rather suitable to trifling points. Glory is but seldom used in a bad sense, and boast still seldomer in a good sense." ( Crabb : Eng. Synon.) *glör-ý-le , a. [Eng. glory; le .] Without glory; bereft of glory. "Soulle , glory le , and desperate." Peele: Battle of Alcazar, ii. 3. *glor-y-yn, v. t. [Etym. doubtful.] To defile; to make dirty; to stain. " Gloryyn or wythe onclene thynge befoylyn. Maculo , deturpo."-Prompt. Parv. *glōse (1), s. [GLOZE, S.] *glōşe, v. i. [GLOZE, v.] *glōş-er, s. [GLOSSER.) glo (1), *glōse (2), s . [O. Fr. glose , from Lat. glo a a word requiring explanation, from Gr. glo a the tongue, a difficult word; Icel. glósa ; Sw. glosa ; Dan. glose : Dut. glos ; Sp. & Ital. glosa ; Port . glo a .] [GLOZE.] 1. An explanatory note or remark on the margin or between the lines of a book, as an equivalent for foreign or strange words. (Originally inserted by the copyist of a manuscript, to make the meaning more plain.) 2. A comment, note, or explanation on a point of difficulty in a work, especially in one written in a foreign tongue; a scholium. "No commentator's tedious glo ." Cowper: A Manual. ne . "Weeds that the wind did to The virgins wore: the youths woven coats, that cast a faint dim glo Like that of oil." Chapman: Homer's Iliad. 2. Fig.: A specious or fair outward appearance; external show pleasing to the eye. "There is a sort of glo upon ingenious falsehoods that dazzles the imagination, but which neither belongs to nor becomes the sober aspect of truth."-Burke: Vindication of National Society (Pref.). To set a glo on anything: To give it a specious appearance. ( Shakesp.: Henry VI., Pt. I., iv. 1.) boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; "But no man can glo e upon this text after that man. ner, for the prophet says, No shepherd shall pitch his fold there, nor shall any man pa through it forever." H. More: Defence of the Philosophic Cabbala, ch. iii. *2. To flatter, to wheedle. "Who that couthe glose softe And flater, such he set alofte In great estate." Gower, iii., 170. *3. To make sly remarks. "Her equals first observed her growing zeal, And laughing glo ed that Abra served so well." Prior: Solomon, ii. 365. glo (2), v. t. [GLOSS (2), s.] I. Lit .: To give a glo or superficial luster to; to make glo y or lustrous; as to glo cloth or paper. II. Figuratively : 1. To give a fair or specious appearance to; to render specious or plausible. "Do I not reason wholly on your conduct? You have the art to glo the foulest cause." Philips . 2. To palliate by specious representation. "Though every tongue should join in glo ing over and even justifying all or any of those crimes."- Porteus , vol. ii., ser. 16. (1) In the figurative senses there is evidently a confusion with GLOSS (1), υ. (2) Crabb thus discriminates between to glo , to varnish , and to palliate : " Glo and varnish are figurative terms, which borrow their signification from the act of rendering the outer surface of any physical object shining. To glo is to give a glo or brightne to anything by means of friction, as in the case of japan or mahogany: to varnish is to give an artificial glo , by means of applying a foreign substance. Hence in the figurative use of the terms, to glo is to put the best face upon a thing by various little distortions and artifices; but to varnish is to do the same thing by means of direct falsehood: to palliate requires still le artifice than either." (Crabb: Eng. Synon.)