gloss 
the word touches flrtw** 1 , r.] I. trans. 1. To ex- 
Elaiu by a gloss or marginal note ; translate ; 
ence, to render clear and evident by com- 
ments; illustrate; comment upon. 
In parchment then, large as his fields, he draws 
Assurances, big as gloas'd civil laws. Donne. 
There is another collection of proverbs made by the 
Marquis of Santillana. They are, however, neither 
rhymed nor glowed, but simply arranged in alphabeti- 
cal order. Tteknor, Span. Lit., I. 341. 
There are several Latin manuscripts glossed more or less 
copiously with explanatory Irish words. 
Encyc. Brit., V. 305. 
Hence 2. To give a specious appearance to; 
render specious and plausible ; palliate by fab- 
ricated representation. 
You have the art to gloss the foulest cause. Philip*. 
II. intmns. To comment; write or make ex- 
planatory remarks. 
But no man can ylosse upon this text after that manner ; 
for the prophet says, No shepherd shall pitch his fold 
there, nor shall any man pass through it for ever. 
Dr. II. More, Def. of Philos. Cabbala, iii. 
glossa (glos'a), . ; pi. glossce (-e). [NL., < Gr. 
ylaaaa, Attic f/.tJTra, the tongue : see gloss 2 , n.] 
1 . In anat., the tongue. 2. In entom., an appen- 
dage of the ligula, situated at its tip, which may 
be median and single or paired with a fellow, 
and may be placed between lateral paraglossse. 
See cut under mouth-part. 
glossagra (glo-sag'ra), n. [< Gr. yZaaaa, the 
tongue, + dypo, seizure, as in wASaypa, the gout 
in the feet (see podagra), whence used in other 
compounds (chiragra, etc.) as meaning 'gout.'] 
Same as glossalgia. 
glossalgia (glo-sal'ji-a), n. [< Gr. yd-oasa, the 
tongue, + aAyof, pain.] In pathol., neuralgia 
in the tongue. 
glossan, glossin (glos'an, -in), . [Of. glas- 
sock.] Local English names of the coalfish. 
Also glassin, glashan, glassock. 
glossanthrax (glo-san'thraks), . [NL., < Gr. 
yAuffo-a, the tongue, + avffpa!-, a carbuncle.] A 
disease in horses and cattle characterized by 
malignant carbuncles in the mouth, and espe- 
cially on the tongue. 
glossaria. . Plural of glossarium. 
glossarial (glo-sa'ri-al), a. [< glossary + -al.] 
Relating to, connected with, or of the nature 
of a glossary. 
In the gloisarial index of former editions, the reader 
has merely been presented with a long list of words, and 
references to the passages where they occur. 
Boivxll, Advertisement to Shakespeare. 
glossarian (glo-sa'ri-an), n. [< glossary + -on.] 
A glossarist. 
The qualifications of the ideal glostarian. 
Quarterly Rev., CXXVII. 145. 
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explain, < LL. glossa, a gloss: see gloss*.] 1. 
The writer of a gloss ; aglossarist; ascholiast. 
And if you ask how many will do it, courteous John 
Semeca, the learned glossator, will tell you. 
Boyle, Works, VI. 311. 
The whole verse is perhaps the addition of an allegoriz- 
ing glossator. Encyc. Brit., XIII. 708. 
The codified law Manu and his glossators embraced 
originally a much smaller body of usage than had been 
imagined. Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 7. 
2. Specifically, one of a class of jurists in the 
middle ages who wrote short notes or glosses 
on the Corpus Juris Civilis. 
gloss-buffed (glos'buft), , Buffed or polished 
on the wheel with rottenstone and oil, or with 
dry chalk. 
glossectomy (glo-sek'to-mi), n. [< Gr. yAoaaa, 
tongue, + tKToii.ii, a cutting out, < eKre/j.veiv, cKra- 
ueiv, cut out, < CK, out, + rkjiveiv, rafielv, cut.] 
In sura., excision of the tongue. 
glossed(glost),jJ.a. [Pp.of^ossV-] Inentom., 
having a smooth and silky luster reflecting a 
color different from that of the surface on which 
it appears to be : as, glossed with white or blue. 
Such appearances are generally due to exceed- 
ingly minute hairs or points on the surface. 
glosser 1 (glos'er), n. [< gloss* + -er*.] A pol- 
isher ; one who gives a luster to something. 
glosser 2 (glos'er), . [< gloss* + -eri. Cf. 
glozer and glossator.] A writer of glosses; a 
glossarist. 
Savigny . . . defends his favourite glossert in the best 
manner he can; ... [but,] without much acquaintance 
with the ancient glossers, one may presume to think that 
in explaining the Pandects . . . their deficiencies . . . 
must require a perpetual exercise of our lenity and pa- 
tience. Hallam, Introd. to Lit. of Europe, I. i. 72. 
In both laws [civil and canon] the opinions of the gloss- 
en are often cited as of equal authority with the letter of 
the law or canon. 
Stuous; Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 307. 
glossfult, a. [< gloss* + -ful] Glossy; shin- 
ing. 
Clasping his well-strung limbs with glossefull steele. 
Marston, Sophonisba, 1. 2. 
OlOSSiC (glos'ik), n. [< Gr. yhoaaa, the tongue, 
a language, + -ic.] A phonetic system of spell- 
ing invented by Alexander J. Ellis, intended to 
be used concurrently with the existing English 
orthography (which he calls Nomic, i. e., 'cus- 
tomary'), in order to remedy some of its de- 
fects without changing its alphabetic form or 
detracting from its value. It is based on the prin- 
ciple of uniformly using for each sound the letter or di- 
graph that happens to be most commonly used for such 
sound in the existing orthography. The following are the 
vowel notations with their equivalents in the system of 
this dictionary, and such of the consonant combinations 
as differ from those of that system. An inverted period 
after a vowel marks it as accented. 
glossarist (glos'a-rist), n. [< glossary + -ist.] 
1. A writer of a gloss or commentary. 
The glossarist cites that passage of the Electra apropos 
of which we know that Aristophanes wrote his comment. 
Atner. Jour. Pkilol., VI. 160. 
2. One who prepares or compiles a glossary, 
glossarium (glo-sa'ri-um), n.; pi. glossaria (-a). 
[NL., < Gr. y^iMoa, a tongue. Cf. glossary.] 
In entom., the long slender labrum of a mos- 
quito or other predatory dipterous insect, 
glossary (glos'a-ri), n. ; pi. glossaries (-riz). 
[= F. glossaire = Sp. glosario = Pg. It. glossa- 
rio = G. glossar, < LL. glossarium, a glossary, 
< glossa, a gloss: see gloss*.] A collection of 
glosses or explanations of words, especially of 
words not in general use, as those of a dialect, 
a locality, or an art or science, or of particular 
words used by an old or a foreign author; a 
vocabulary or dictionary of limited scope. 
He spells them true by intuition's light, 
And needs no glossary to set him right. 
Cowper, Needless Alarm. 
Shakespeare stands less in need of a glossary to most 
New Englanders than to many a native of the old country. 
Lowell, Study Windows. 
= Syn. Dictionary, Lexicon, etc. See vocabulary. 
Glossata (glo-sa'ta), n. pi. [NL., neut. pi. of 
glossatus, tongued : see glossate.] A division of 
insects, containing those with suctorial mouth- 
parts and a spiral tongue between reflexed pal- 
pi, corresponding to the order Lepidoptera. Fa- 
bricius, 
glossate (glos'at), a. [< NL. glossatus, tongued, 
< Gr. yAuaro, tongue : see gloss*.] Having a 
tongue or glossa; in entom., haustellate, as dis- 
tinguished from mandibulate; specifically, of 
or pertaining to the Glossata. 
glossator (glo-sa'tor), n. [= F. glossateur (OF. 
gloseor, gloseur) = Sp. glosador = It. glosatore, 
glossatore, < ML. glossator, < glossare, gloss, 
Glossic. Diet. Glossic. Diet, 
ee = e 0=0 
i = i oa = o 
ai = a u = u 
e = e 00=0 
aa = a no = u 
a = a ei = i 
au = a oi = oi 
Glossic. Diet. 
ou = ou 
eu = u 
wh = hw 
dh = TH 
r = rfinal 
r' = r initial 
rr' = rr medial. 
glossohyal 
fiber into its constituent fibers and to add luster. Some- 
times called stringing. 
glossingly (glos'ing-li), orfc. In a glossing man- 
ner ; by way of or as a gloss. 
Then she began glossingli/ to praise beauty. 
Sir P. Sidiiay, Arcadia, lit 
GlOSSiptila (glo-sip'ti-la), . [NL., < Gr. yteaaa, 
tongue, + im/ov, down.] The typical genus of 
Glossiptilina;. There is but one species, G. ruficollis, 
of Jamaica, formerly called American hedge-sparrow and 
now rufous-throated tanager. P. L. Sclater, 1856. 
Glossiptilinae (glo-sip-ti-li'ne), n. pi. [NL., < 
Glosaiptila + -ina}.] A subfamily of CcerebMai, 
typified by the genus Glossiptila, containing 
guitguits with short, thick, conical, and scarce- 
ly curved bill. 
glossist (glos'ist), n. [< gloss* + -ist.] A 
writer of glosses ; a glossarist. 
To establish by law a thing wholly unlawfull and dis- 
honest is an affirmation was never heard of ... till it 
was rais'd by inconsiderate glossists from the mistake of 
this text. ' Milton, Tetrachordon. 
It is quite conceivable how the glossist quoted . . . 
could render Wuotan by Mars. 
Grimm, Teut. Mythol. (trans.), I. 197. 
glossitic (glo-sit'ik), a. [< glossitis i + -ic.] Per- 
taining to or affected with glossitis, 
glossitis (glo-si'tis), n. [NL., < Gr. yl-aaaa, the 
tongue, + -itis.] In pathol., inflammation of 
the tongue. Also glottitis. 
glossless(glos'les), a. [< glossi + -less.] With- 
out gloss or luster. 
Glossless vases painted in dull ochre browns and reds. 
Encyc. Brit., XIX. 612. 
glosslyt (glos'li), a. [< glossi + -ly 1 .] Appear- 
ing glossy or specious ; bright. Cowley. 
glossocele (glos'o-sel), n. [= F. glossocele, < 
Gr. yl.oaaa, the tongue, + idfa, a tumor.] In 
pathol., swelled tongue; a state of inflamma- 
tion or cedematous engorgement of the tongue 
which makes it project from the mouth. 
glossocomion (glos"o-ko-mi'on), n. Same as 
glossocowium. 
glossocomium (glos"o-ko-mi'um), n. ; pi. glos- 
socomia (-a). [NL., < <3,T.'yl.uaaoKo/i*:iov, <yl.oaaa, 
the tongue, a tongue, the reed of a pipe, + KO/IC'IV, 
keep, take care of.] In archaiol.: (a) A small 
case used for holding the tongues of wind-in- 
struments. (I) A box or case in which a frac- 
tured limb was incased. 
glosso-epiglottic (glos"6-ep-i-glot'ik), a. [< 
Gr. y'Auaaa, tongue, + imyAurris, the epiglottis.] 
Pertaining to the tongue and the epiglottis : ap- 
plied to folds of mucous membrane which pass 
from one to the other. 
glossograph (glos'o-graf ), n. [< Gr. yl.uaaa, the 
tongue, a gloss, +' ypd<t>eiv, write.] 1. An in- 
strument for recording the movements of the 
tongue, as in speaking. 
Glossograph. Aa instrument consisting of an ingeni- 
ous combination of delicate levers and blades, which, 
placed upon the tongue and lips, and under the nostrils 
of the speaker, are vibrated by the movements of the 
former, and the breath flowing from the latter. 
Greer, Diet, of Elect., p. 69. 
2. Same as glossographer, 1. 
A glance at this scholium is enough to show that its 
author, like so many other editors and glossographs, . . . 
made up a good part of his note dir 
Amer. . 
A bivalve mollusk of the glossographer (glo-sog'ra-fer), n. [= F. glos- 
sographe = It. glossografo, < Gr. yAuaooyfiafyos, 
writing glosses, interpreting glosses: see glos- 
sography.] 1. A writer of glosses; a commen- 
tator; a scholiast. 
The following is a specimen of Glossic : 
IngKlish Glosik konvai-z whotever proanunsiai-shen iz .. _-- 
inten ^ed bei dhi reiter. Glosik buoks kan dhairfoar bee author, like so many other editors and glossograph, . . 
maid too impaar-t risee-vd aurthoa-ipi too aulj-eederz.^ made up a good part of his tatoUndSj, fromhis^text.^ 
glOSSld (glos'id), n. 
family Glossidce. 
Glossidse (glos'i-de), n. pi. [NL., < Glossus + 
-ida;.] A family of siphonate bivalve mol- 
lusks, the heart-cockles or heart-shells, typified 
by the genus Glossus. They have a cordiform shell 
with subspiral beaks, 2 cardinal and typically 2 lateral 
teeth in each valve, the muscular impressions narrow, and 
the pallial line simple. The species are not numerous. 
Also called Isocardiidce. 
glossily (glos'i-li), adv. In a glossy manner. 
glossin, . See glossan. 
Glossina (glo-si'na), n. [NL., < Gr. yhuaaa, 
tongue, + -ma.] 1. A genus of dipterous in- 
sects, or flies, of the family Muscida 1 . G. mor- 
sitans is the terrible tsetse-fly. 2. A genus of 
brachiopods, of the family Lingulida. Phillips, 
1848. 3. A genus 6f pyralid moths: same as 
Stericta. Guenee, 1854. 
glossiness (glos'i-nes), n. The quality of being 
glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth 
surface. 
Their surfaces had a smoothness and glossiness much sur- 
passing whatever I had observed in marine or common 
Boyle, Works, VI. 606. 
glossing (glos'ing), w. [Verbal n. of gloss*, v.] 
In silk-manuf., an operation of twistingthe hanks 
of silk, after dyeing, and when perfectly dry. 
They are given a stated and progressive tension, the ob- 
ject being to complete the separation of the double silk 
Some words I believe may pose the ablest glossographer 
now living. Blmmt, Ancient Tenures, Pref. 
Speght was the first editor who gave a more complete 
edition of Chaucer, with the useful appendage of a glos- 
sary, the first of its kind, and which has been a fortunate 
acquisition for later glossographers. 
I. D' Israeli, Amen, of Lit., I. 202. 
2. A writer on the tongue and its diseases. 
glossographical (glos-o-graf 'i-kal), a. [< glos- 
sography + -ic-al.] Pertaining to or of the 
nature of glossography. 
glossograpny (glo-sog'ra-fi), . [= F. glosso- 
granhie = Sp. glosografia = Pg. glossographta 
= It. glossografia, < NL. glossographia, < Gr. as 
if *y^uaaoypa.q>ia, < y^Manoypa^of, writing glosses, 
interpreting glosses (not used in lit. sense ' writ- 
ing about the tongue'), < yhuaaa, the tongue, 
a gloss, + ypdQeiv, write.] 1. The writing of 
glosses or explanatory comments on a text. 
2. In anat., a description of the tongue. 
3. A description and grouping of languages. 
[Bare.] 
glossohyal (glos-o-hi'al), a. andii. [< Gr. y/ua- 
o-a, tongue, + E. 'hy(oid) + -al.] I. a. Pertain- 
