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.
A surface shine or luster.
A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
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.
Undecipherable handwriting or secret symbol.
Any symbol used in this system; a hieroglyph.
A writing system of ancient Egypt, Minoans, Maya and other civilizations, using pictorial symbols to represent individual sounds as a rebus
difficult to decipher
of, relating to, or written with this system of symbols