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Gloss   /glɔs/   Listen
Gloss

noun
1.
An explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text.  Synonym: 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.  Synonym: glossary.
3.
The property of being smooth and shiny.  Synonyms: burnish, glossiness, polish.
4.
An outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading.  Synonyms: color, colour, semblance.  "He tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction" , "The situation soon took on a different color"
verb
(past & past part. glossed; pres. part. glossing)
1.
Give a shine or gloss to, usually by rubbing.
2.
Provide interlinear explanations for words or phrases.  Synonyms: annotate, comment.
3.
Provide an interlinear translation of a word or phrase.
4.
Give a deceptive explanation or excuse for.  Synonyms: color, colour.



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"Gloss" Quotes from Famous Books



... be firm ground. He waded toward wallowing. This is a perilous way of living and the sad little end of Euphemia, flushed and coughing, left him no doubt in many ways still more exposed to the temptations of the sentimental byway and the emotional gloss. Happily this is a book about Lady Harman and not an exhaustive monograph upon Mr. Brumley. We will at least leave him the refuge of ...
— The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman • H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
... much of a blunt 'true born Englishman'. There was a stratum of common clay under the rock of marble. He was voraciously fond of good eating; and he had a great deal of that quality called humour, which gives an oiliness and a gloss to every other quality. ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell
... and disinterested, and yet he could not resist the temptation to be generous to his own flesh and blood at the expense of another. The contest within him made him miserable; but the devil and mammon were too strong for him, particularly coming as they did, half hidden beneath the gloss of parental affection. There was little of the Roman about the earl, and he could not condemn his own son; so he fumed and fretted, and twisted himself about in the easy chair in his dingy book-room, and passed long hours in trying to persuade himself that ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope
... When this has dried, it should be sanded lightly and then one or two coats of wax should be properly applied and polished. Directions for waxing are upon the cans in which the wax is bought. A beautiful dull gloss so much sought by finishers of modern furniture will be the result ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics
... go away!" she cried, throwing up one arm, and thereby pushing back her gray bonnet, and exhibiting some of the gloss of her light brown hair. "Can't ...
— The House of Martha • Frank R. Stockton


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