glosstis.html - {v.} To try to make what is wrong or bad seem right or not important; try to make a thing look easy; pretend about; hide. * /Billy broke a window and Mother tried to gloss it over by saying it wouldn't cost much to have it fixed, but Father spanked Billy anyway./ * /John glossed over his mistake by saying that everybody did the same thing./

glosstis.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a surface shine or lustre. b an instance of this; a smooth finish.
2 a deceptively attractive appearance. b an instance of this.
3 (in full gloss paint) paint formulated to give a hard glossy finish (cf. MATT).

--v.

tr. make glossy.

gloss over 1 seek to conceal beneath a false appearance.
2 conceal or evade by mentioning briefly or misleadingly.

glosser n. [16th c.: orig. unkn.]

glosstis.html - n. & v.
--n.

1 a an explanatory word or phrase inserted between the lines or in the margin of a text. b a comment, explanation, interpretation, or paraphrase.
2 a misrepresentation of another's words.
3 a a glossary. b an interlinear translation or annotation.

--v.

1 tr. a add a gloss or glosses to (a text, word, etc.). b read a different sense into; explain away.
2 intr. (often foll. by on) make (esp. unfavourable) comments.
3 intr. write or introduce glosses.

glosser n. [alt. of GLOZE after med.L glossa]

glosstis.html - adj.
Anat. of the tongue; lingual. [Gk glossa tongue]

glosstis.html - n.
(pl. -ies)
1 (also gloss) an alphabetical list of terms or words found in or relating to a specific subject or text, esp. dialect, with explanations; a brief dictionary.
2 a collection of glosses.

glossarial adj. glossarist n. [L glossarium f. glossa GLOSS(2)]

glosstis.html - n.
1 a writer of glosses.
2 hist. a commentator on, or interpreter of, medieval law-texts. [ME f. med.L f. glossare f. glossa GLOSS(2)]