gloze

verb /ɡləʊz/

To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
literary
But I will gloze with him.
Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning:
To use flattering language.
To floate in bloud, and at thy wanton head, The glozing head of thy base minion throwne.
[…] looke to see the throne where you should sit,
To smooth over; to palliate by specious explanation.
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 […]
To give a shine to (something or someone).
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.

Where it comes from

From Middle English glosen, from Old French gloser, from Medieval Latin glossa. Doublet of gloss and glossa.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry gloze (CC BY-SA 4.0).