Crossword-Solution: GLOSS
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| 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. |
| Gloss | n. | A specious appearance; superficial quality or show. |
| Gloss | v. t. | To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth. |
| Gloss | n. | A foreign, archaic, technical, or other uncommon word requiring explanation. |
| Gloss | n. | An interpretation, consisting of one or more words, interlinear or marginal; an explanatory note or comment; a running commentary. |
| Gloss | n. | A false or specious explanation. |
| Gloss | v. t. | To render clear and evident by comments; to illustrate; to explain; to annotate. |
| Gloss | v. t. | To give a specious appearance to; to render specious and plausible; to palliate by specious explanation. |
| Gloss | v. i. | To make comments; to comment; to explain. |
| Gloss | v. i. | To make sly remarks, or insinuations. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GLOSS | anagram | SLOGS |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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eruption
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Sentences with GLOSS (5)
The effervescence of youth and passion, and the fresh gloss of the intellect and imagination, endow them with a false brilliancy, which makes fools of themselves and other people.
Whatever gloss the various spectators put upon the interest, according to their several arts and powers of self-deceit, the interest was, at the root of it, Ogreish.
With their riders up At the starting post they muster, The racers stripp'd for the "Melbourne Cup", All gloss and polish and lustre; And the course is seen, with its emerald sheen, By the bright spring-tide renew'd, Like a ribbon of green stretched out between The ranks of the multitude.
Peniston’s black walnut, from the slippery gloss of the vestibule tiles, and the mingled odour of sapolio and furniture-polish that met her at the door.
Leonard, in his best clothes, and with a smoother gloss on his brown hair, sang to himself as he urged the strong-boned horses into a trot along the levels; and Betty finally felt so quietly happy that she forgot to be nervous.
Quotes with GLOSS (3)
Some of us get dipped in flat, some in satin, some in gloss...." He turned to me. "But every once in a while, you find someone who's iridescent, and when you do, nothing will ever compare.
Mulling this over, Vlad wiped her lip gloss from his lips with the back of his hand. Vampires, after all, didn't sparkle.
Charlotte: "It’s too bad they don’t give out diplomas for what you learn at the mall, because I could graduate with honors in that subject. No really. Since I’ve worked there, I’ve become an expert on all things shopping-related. For example, I can tell you right off who to distrust at the mall:1) Skinny people who work at Cinnabon. I mean, if they’re not eating the stuff they sell, how good can it be?2) The salesladies at department store makeup counters. No matter what they…
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 136 times in crossword archives (1954–2025).