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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Gloss

Gloss (gloss)
n.(gl&obreve]s)
Gloss
[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.

Gloss

Gloss (gloss)
v. t.
Gloss
  1. 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.

Gloss

Gloss (gloss)
n.
Gloss
  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.

Gloss

Gloss (gloss)
v. t.(gls)
Gloss
  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.

Gloss

Gloss (gloss)
v. i.(?)
Gloss
  1. To make comments; to comment; to explain.
    Dryden.
  2. To make sly remarks, or insinuations.
    Prior.












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