Index of English words, starting with "gl"

(1) - Gloss (v. i.) To make sly remarks, or insinuations.
(2) - Gloss (v. i.) To make comments; to comment; to explain.
(3) - Gloss (v. t.) To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation.
(4) - Gloss (v. t.) To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate.
(5) - Gloss (n.) A false or specious explanation.
(6) - Gloss (n.) An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary.
(7) - Gloss (n.) A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation.
(8) - Gloss (v. t.) To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth.
(9) - Gloss (n.) A specious appearance; superficial quality or show.
(10) - Gloss (n.) 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.

(1) - Glossal (a.) Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.

(1) - Glossarial (a.) Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.

(1) - Glossarist (n.) A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast.

(1) - Glossary (n.) A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.