Glozed vs Glomed - What's the difference?
glozed | glomed |
(gloze)
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
(glome)
(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.
(obsolete) To look gloomy, morose, or sullen.
As verbs the difference between glozed and glomed
is that glozed is (gloze) while glomed is (glome).glozed
English
Verb
(head)gloze
English
Verb
(gloz)Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning:
But I will gloze with him. — Young prince of Tyre.
- By glozing the evil that is in the world.
Synonyms
* See alsoglomed
English
Verb
(head)glome
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) (lena) (glomus) a ball. Compare (globe).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Verb
(glom)- (Surrey)