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Gloze vs Glome - What's the difference?

gloze | glome |

As nouns the difference between gloze and glome

is that gloze is a comment in the margin while glome is (anatomy) one of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot or glome can be (obsolete) gloom.

As verbs the difference between gloze and glome

is that gloze is to extenuate, explain away, gloss over while glome is (obsolete) to look gloomy, morose, or sullen.

gloze

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A comment in the margin.
  • Flattery.
  • False appearance.
  • A specious show, a deceit.

    • Verb

    (gloz)
  • To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
  • *1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 279:
  • *:Of what were generative organs made? / And for what profit were those creatures wrought? / [...] / Gloze as you will and plead the explanation / That they were only made for the purgation / Of urine, little things of no avail / Except to know a female from a male / [...].
  • *1978': On a rock orchid, the roundness and '''gloze / Of a lapith's bum! — Peter Porter, from 'Piero di Cosimo on the Shoalhaven' in ''The Cost of Seriousness , 1978
  • *William Shakespeare & Anonymous; Pericles, Prince of Tyre :
  • *:ANTIOCHUS.
    Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning:
    But I will gloze with him. — Young prince of Tyre.
  • To smooth over; to palliate.
  • * I. Taylor
    • By glozing the evil that is in the world.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    glome

    English

    Etymology 1

    (etyl) (lena) (glomus) a ball. Compare (globe).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (anatomy) One of the two prominences at the posterior extremity of the frog of a horse's foot.
  • (geometry) A hypersphere in 4-dimensional Euclidean space defined as the set of all points that are at a given distance from a given point, also called a 3-sphere.

    • Etymology 2

    Verb

    (glom)
  • (obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
    • (Surrey)

    Noun

  • (obsolete) gloom
    • (Webster 1913) ----