an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.

a series of verbal interpretations of a text.

a glossary.

an artfully misleading interpretation.

to insert glosses on; annotate.

to place (a word) in a gloss.

to give a specious interpretation of; explain away (often fol. by over or away )

to gloss over a serious problem with a pat solution.

to make glosses.

verb

gloss