GLOSS

noun a false or specious explanation.

2. gloss ·vi to make sly remarks, or insinuations.

3. gloss ·noun a specious appearance; superficial quality or show.

4. gloss ·noun a foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.

5. gloss ·vi to make comments; to comment; to explain.

6. gloss ·vt to give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth.

7. gloss ·vt to give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.

8. gloss ·noun an interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary.

9. gloss ·noun 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.

10. gloss ·vt to render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.