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First published 1956 (SND Vol. IV).
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GLOZE, v., n. Also glose and deriv. glozen. [glo:z]

I. v. 1. To blaze, shine brightly (Ags., Per. 1954).Sc. 1808 Jam.:
The fire is said to be glozin, when it has a bright flame.Sc. 1820 A. Sutherland St Kathleen III. 167:
Gudewife, carry up a glozin' peat, an' kennel a spunk o' fire in them baith.Ags. 1914 I. Bell Country Clash 64:
On entering the shop, which was heated up by a glozing wood fire, Maggy began to cough.Sc. 1928 J. G. Horne Lan'wart Loon 24:
The souter's ingle still was glozin'.

2. To warm at a fire. Ppl.adj. glozened.Sc. 1937 Oor Mither Tongue (MacWhannell) 47:
Behold him on his glozened knees, . . . Greetin' through reek to mak' a bleeze And boil his pat.

II. n. 1. A blaze (Ags., Per. 1954); “a glow of light” (Sc. 1911 S.D.D. Add., glose).Ags. 1894 J. B. Salmond My Man Sandy (1899) ix.:
The ham dip gaed up the lum in a gloze.Ags. 1896 Barrie Sentimental Tommy xxiii.:
It's the pair o' them . . . that sometimes comes here at nights and kindles the fire and warms themselves at the gloze.

†2. “The act of warming one's self at a quick fire” (Sc. 1808 Jam.). Cf. Gloss, n.¹ 2. and Glaise.