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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Quotation dates: 1450-1452, 1513-1590
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Glos(e, Glois, v. [ME. glose (a 1300), OF. glose.] tr. a. To gloss, make glosses on. b. To veil by specious explanation: to cover up, disguise, deceive. Also absol.(a) c1450-2 Howlat 35.
And I haue mekle matir in metir to glos [: purpos] 1513 Doug. viii. vii. 55.
Quharfor, … Sa far about thou glosys thy mater? Quhy axis thou nocht planely thy desire? 1533 Boece vi. iii. 190.
To the king thai feneȝeit and glosit mony thingis twiching rebellioun of Donald a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS xlv. 8.
Mony man glosis the law oft aganis the pure 1570 Leslie 88.
To glose the same, ye now wryt that slaiers be sey neid not compeir personallie c1590 Fowler I. 198/11.
Inthralled by thé, whose beautye hathe me glosd(b) 1549 Proceedings of Society of Antiquaries XI. 95.
The said … Erle of Cathenes schamis nocht to allege vntrew saingis to glois his faling in the article c1550 Rolland Court of Venus i. 471.
The name glois, as thow plesis, quhat than? c1550 Ib. iii. 765.
Ȝe brek the text, and as ȝe pleis dois glois 1562-3 Winȝet I. 56/22.
A werk … cunninglie gloissit be sum weill leirnit and discrete man … , in the mergin a1570-86 Arbuthnot Maitland Folio MS xxix. 73.
I hait flatterie., Ȝit man I leir to flatter, glois, and fayne
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