Gloss :: Gloss (n.) 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..
Gloss :: Gloss (n.) A specious appearance; superficial quality or show.
Gloss :: Gloss (v. t.) To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth..
Gloss :: Gloss (n.) A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation..
Gloss :: Gloss (n.) An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary..
Gloss :: Gloss (n.) A false or specious explanation.
Gloss :: Gloss (v. t.) To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.
Gloss :: Gloss (v. t.) To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.
Gloss :: Gloss (v. i.) To make comments; to comment; to explain.
Gloss :: Gloss (v. i.) To make sly remarks, or insinuations..
Glossa :: Glossa (n.) The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera..
Glossal :: Glossal (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.
Glossanthrax :: Glossanthrax (n.) A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.
Glossarial :: Glossarial (a.) Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.
Glossarially :: Glossarially (adv.) In the manner of a glossary.
Glossarist :: Glossarist (n.) A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.
Glossary :: Glossary (n.) A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words..