GLOSS

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gloss, n. 1. A note inserted between the lines or in the margin of a text to explain a difficult or obscure word in the text (this edition of Shakespeare’s works is bolstered by its many glosses on Elizabethan English). 2. A collection of explanations; a glossary (the hornbook’s copious gloss). 3. (usu. pl.) A

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