Definition of gloss

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Gloss (n.) A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation..

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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..
Shama :: Shama (n.) A saxicoline singing bird (Kittacincla macroura) of India, noted for the sweetness and power of its song. In confinement it imitates the notes of other birds and various animals with accuracy. Its head, neck, back, breast, and tail are glossy black, the rump white, the under parts chestnut..
Japan :: "Japan (v. t.) To give a glossy black to, as shoes..
Enameled :: Enameled (a.) Coated or adorned with enamel; having a glossy or variegated surface; glazed.
Glossist :: Glossist (n.) A writer of comments.
Polish :: Polish (n.) Anything used to produce a gloss.
Entoglossal :: Entoglossal (a.) Within the tongue; -- applied to the glossohyal bone.
Glossography :: Glossography (n.) The writing of glossaries, glosses, or comments for illustrating an author..
Varnish :: Varnish (n.) To cover or conceal with something that gives a fair appearance; to give a fair coloring to by words; to gloss over; to palliate; as, to varnish guilt..
Hypoglossal :: Hypoglossal (n.) One of the hypoglossal nerves.
Flatting :: Flatting (n.) A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss..
Glossal :: Glossal (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.
Subglottic :: Subglossal (a.) Situated under the tongue; sublingual.
Shine :: Shine (v. i.) To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver..
Toucan :: Toucan (n.) Any one of numerous species of fruit-eating birds of tropical America belonging to Ramphastos, Pteroglossus, and allied genera of the family Ramphastidae. They have a very large, but light and thin, beak, often nearly as long as the body itself. Most of the species are brilliantly colored with red, yellow, white, and black in striking contrast..
Glossata :: Glossata (n. pl.) The Lepidoptera.
Phainopepla :: Phainopepla (n.) A small crested passerine bird (Phainopepla nitens), native of Mexico and the Southern United States. The adult male is of a uniform glossy blue-black; the female is brownish. Called also black flycatcher..
Glossopharyngeal :: Glossopharyngeal (a.) Pertaining to both the tongue and the pharynx; -- applied especially to the ninth pair of cranial nerves, which are distributed to the pharynx and tongue. -- n. One of the glossopharyngeal nerves..
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..
Glossed :: Glossed (imp. & p. p.) of Glos.
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