gloze

Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning:

But I will gloze with him.

[…] looke to see the throne where you should sit,

To floate in bloud, and at thy wanton head,

The glozing head of thy base minion throwne.

On this ground it is that Christianity works its way in Christianizing a community—if only it have free scope. It does this, not by glozing the evil that is in the world; not by extenuating, or by exaggerating the damage which human nature has sustained; but it does so by raising, in all minds, the ideal of human nature […]

The scanty light glozed them with the glory of day, and, forgetful of pain and thirst and hunger, and of the menace of death, they sank upon the floor and cried, keeping fast hold of each other the while.