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Is gloze a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word gloze is a Scrabble US word. The word gloze is worth 15 points in Scrabble:

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Is gloze a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word gloze is a Scrabble UK word and has 15 points:

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Yes. The word gloze is a Words With Friends word. The word gloze is worth 17 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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5-letter words (1 found)

GLOZE,

4-letter words (4 found)

GOEL,GOLE,LOGE,OGLE,

3-letter words (10 found)

EGO,GEL,GEO,GOE,LEG,LEZ,LOG,OLE,ZEL,ZOL,

2-letter words (6 found)

EL,GO,LO,OE,ZE,ZO,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 22 words from gloze according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

All 5 letters words made out of gloze

gloze lgoze golze oglze logze olgze glzoe lgzoe gzloe zgloe lzgoe zlgoe gozle ogzle gzole zgole ozgle zogle lozge olzge lzoge zloge ozlge zolge gloez lgoez golez oglez logez olgez gleoz lgeoz geloz egloz legoz elgoz goelz ogelz geolz egolz oeglz eoglz loegz olegz leogz elogz oelgz eolgz glzeo lgzeo gzleo zgleo lzgeo zlgeo glezo lgezo gelzo eglzo legzo elgzo gzelo zgelo gezlo egzlo zeglo ezglo lzego zlego lezgo elzgo zelgo ezlgo gozel ogzel gzoel zgoel ozgel zogel goezl ogezl geozl egozl oegzl eogzl gzeol zgeol gezol egzol zegol ezgol ozegl zoegl oezgl eozgl zeogl ezogl lozeg olzeg lzoeg zloeg ozleg zoleg loezg olezg leozg elozg oelzg eolzg lzeog zleog lezog elzog zelog ezlog ozelg zoelg oezlg eozlg zeolg ezolg

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Definitions and meaning of gloze

gloze

Etymology

From Middle English glosen, from Old French gloser, from Medieval Latin glossa. More at gloss.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡləʊz/
  • Rhymes: -əʊz
  • Homophone: glows

Noun

gloze (plural glozes)

  1. A comment in the margin; explanatory note; gloss; commentary.
    • 1903, Cuthbert Atchley, The Parish Clerk, and his Right to Read the Liturgical Epistle, Alcuin Club Tracts IV, London: Longmans, Green & Co., p. 15,[2]
      The state of practice in the first half of the fifteenth century may be gathered from the gloze of Nicholas de Tudeschis, called Panormitan, on the text Ut quisque which we have quoted above.
  2. Flattery.
  3. (False) appearance.
    • 1859, Leander Clark, “Sonnet No. 6” in Kenridge Hall, and Other Poems, Washington: Franklin Philp, p. 72,[7]
      Wear not the mask of Love upon thy face,
      For fear my eye discern; ’twere better veil
      The sweet serenity Love’s eye would trace,
      Than with its gloze to make his visage stale.
  4. A specious show, a deceit.

Verb

gloze (third-person singular simple present glozes, present participle glozing, simple past and past participle glozed)

  1. (literary) To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
  2. To use flattering language.
    • 1810, Joanna Baillie, The Family Legend: A Tragedy, Act 5, Scene 2, pages 126-127.
      As he pretended, struck, then stern and silent,
      Till presently assuming, like his father,
      A courtesy minute and over-studied,
      He glozed us with his thanks:
  3. To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.
    • 1906, E. A. Baker, Introduction to Moll Flanders and Roxana, G. Routledge & Sons (New York), p. xviii,
      …his contempt for every romantic or sentimental motive that would gloze over real causes, and represent the conduct of human beings rather as we would have it to be than as it is…
  4. To give a shine to (something or someone).

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:flattery

Anagrams

  • Goelz

Source: wiktionary.org