A finishing touch; careful elaboration; polish.
The result of any process changing the physical or chemical properties of cloth.
A shot on goal, especially one that ends in a goal.
A protective coating given to wood or metal and other surfaces.
An end; the end of anything.
To reach orgasm.
To complete (something).
To change an animal's food supply in the months before it is due for slaughter, with the intention of fattening the animal.
To apply a treatment to (a surface or similar).
To put an end to; to destroy.
To come to an end.
A surface shine or luster.
A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law.
An extensive commentary on some text.
A glossary; a collection of such notes.
To give a gloss or sheen to.
To make (something) attractive by deception
Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
To add a gloss to (a text).
To become shiny.