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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gloss \Gloss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Glossed}; p. pr & vb n. {Glossing}.] To give a superficial luster or gloss to to make smooth and shining; as to gloss cloth. The glossed and gleamy wave. --J. R. Drake. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gloss \Gloss\, n. [Cf. Icel. glossi a blaze, glys finery, MHG. glosen to glow, G. glosten to glimmer; perh. akin to E. glass.] 1. Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss. It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford. --Hooker. 2. A specious appearance; superficial quality or show To me more dear, congenial to my heart, One native charm than all the gloss of art. --Goldsmith. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gloss \Gloss\, n. [OE. glose, F. glose, L. glossa a difficult word needing explanation, fr Gr ? tongue, language, word needing explanation. Cf {Gloze}, {Glossary}, {Glottis}.] 1. A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation. [Obs.] 2. An interpretation, consisting of one or more words interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary. All this without a gloss or comment, He would unriddle in a moment. --Hudibras. Explaining the text in short glosses. --T. Baker. 3. A false or specious explanation. --Dryden. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gloss \Gloss\, v. t. 1. To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate. 2. To give a specious appearance to to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation. You have the art to gloss the foulest cause --Philips. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Gloss \Gloss\, v. i. 1. To make comments; to comment; to explain. --Dryden. 2. To make sly remarks, or insinuations. --Prior. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Glossa \Glos"sa\, n.; pl {Gloss?}. [NL., fr Gr ? the tongue.] (Zo["o]l.) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See {Hymenoptera}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: gloss n 1: an explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text [syn: {rubric}] 2: an alphabetical list of technical terms in some specialized field of knowledge; usually published as an appendix to a text on that field [syn: {glossary}] 3: the property of being smooth and shiny [syn: {polish}, {glossiness}, {burnish}] v 1: make shiny [syn: {polish}, {burnish}] 2: provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases [syn: {comment}] 3: provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase 4: gloss or excuse; "color a lie" [syn: {color}]
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