Definition of gloss

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Gloss (n.) A specious appearance; superficial quality or show.

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Halibut :: Halibut (n.) A large, northern, marine flatfish (Hippoglossus vulgaris), of the family Pleuronectidae. It often grows very large, weighing more than three hundred pounds. It is an important food fish..
Glazer :: Glazer (n.) One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like..
Warrin :: Warrin (n.) An Australian lorikeet (Trichoglossus multicolor) remarkable for the variety and brilliancy of its colors; -- called also blue-bellied lorikeet, and blue-bellied parrot..
Doncella :: Doncella (n.) A handsome fish of Florida and the West Indies (Platyglossus radiatus). The name is applied also to the ladyfish (Harpe rufa) of the same region.
Linguistics :: Linguistics (n.) The science of languages, or of the origin, signification, and application of words; glossology..
Enameled :: Enameled (a.) Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed.
Japan :: "Japan (v. t.) To give a glossy black to, as shoes..
Glossator :: Glossator (n.) A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator.
Hypoglossal :: Hypoglossal (a.) Under the tongue; -- applied esp., in the higher vertebrates, to the twelfth or last pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the base of the tongue..
Gloss :: Gloss (n.) A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation..
Gymnoglossa :: Gymnoglossa (n. pl.) A division of gastropods in which the odontophore is without teeth.
Vanjas :: Vanjas (n.) The Australian pied crow shrike (Strepera graculina). It is glossy bluish black, with the under tail coverts and the tips and bases of the tail feathers white..
Taenioglossa :: Taenioglossa (n. pl.) An extensive division of gastropod mollusks in which the odontophore is long and narrow, and usually bears seven rows of teeth. It includes a large number of families both marine and fresh-water..
Oxtongue :: Oxtongue (n.) A name given to several plants, from the shape and roughness of their leaves; as, Anchusa officinalis, a kind of bugloss, and Helminthia echioides, both European herbs..
Megrim :: Megrim (n.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa)..
Gloss :: Gloss (v. i.) To make sly remarks, or insinuations..
Glase :: Glase (v. t.) To incrust, cover, or overlay with a thin surface, consisting of, or resembling, glass; as, to glaze earthenware; hence, to render smooth, glasslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like..
Taenioglossate :: Taenioglossate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Taenioglossa.
Finish :: Finish (n.) The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc..
Lingual :: Lingual (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; uttered by the aid of the tongue; glossal; as, the lingual nerves; a lingual letter..
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