To become shiny.
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).
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 clothe in purple.
To dye purple.
To turn purple in colour.
Any of the species of large butterflies, usually marked with purple or blue, of the genus Basilarchia (formerly Limenitis).
Purpura.
The purple haze cultivar of cannabis in the kush family, either pure or mixed with others, or by extension any variety of smoked marijuana.
Any of various species of mollusks from which Tyrian purple dye was obtained, especially the common dog whelk.
Earcockle, a disease of wheat.
A cardinalate.
A color that is a dark blend of red and blue; dark magenta.
Any non-spectral colour on the line of purples on a colour chromaticity diagram or a colour wheel between violet and red.
Cloth, or a garment, dyed a purple colour; especially, a purple robe, worn as an emblem of rank or authority; specifically, the purple robe or mantle worn by Ancient Roman emperors as the emblem of imperial dignity.
Imperial power, because the colour purple was worn by emperors and kings.
Completed in the fastest time so far in a given session.
Extravagantly ornate, like purple prose.
Mixed between social democrats and liberals.
Imperial; regal.
Not predominantly red or blue, but having a mixture of Democrat and Republican support.
Having a colour/color that is a dark blend of red and blue.
Blood-red; bloody.