" gloss "

[Noun]  | "gloss" | \ ˈgläs \

1: a surface luster or brightness : shine

2: a deceptively attractive appearance

3: bright often superficial attractiveness

Origin: 1538 ;

 Akin to Middle High German glosen to glow, shine; akin to Old English geolu yellow;

[Noun]  | "gloss" 

1: a brief explanation (as in the margin or between the lines of a text) of a difficult or obscure word or expression

2: a false and often willfully misleading interpretation (as of a text)

3: glossary

Origin: 1548 ;

 Alteration (by conformation to its Latin and Greek source) of glose, gloze, going back to Middle English glose, borrowed from Anglo-French, borrowed from Medieval Latin glōsa, glōssa "tongue, language, commentary on a word or passage, compilation of such commentaries" (Latin, "collection of unfamiliar words"), borrowed from Greek glôssa, (Attic) glôtta, (Ionic) glássa "tongue, language, obscure word requiring explanation," derivative in *-i̯ā from the stem of a presumed root noun *glṓks "point, something pointed," perhaps going back to an Indo-European nominative *glōgh-s, genitive *gl̥gh-ós; from the same base Greek glôches "awns of a head of grain," glōchī́s "projecting point (as the end of a yoke fastening or the barb of an arrow)";

  * Note : Despite its Indo-European look, this set of Greek words has no definite congeners in other Indo-European languages; kinship with Slavic *glogŭ "hawthorn" (Czech hloh, Polish głóg, Serbian & Croatian glȍg; Russian glog "dogwood") is uncertain.;

[Noun]  | "lip gloss" 

1: a viscous usually tinted cosmetic preparation used for adding shine and usually color to the lips : gloss

Origin: 1938 ;

[Verb]  | "gloss" 

1: to mask the true nature of : give a deceptively attractive appearance to —used with over

2: to deal with (a subject or problem) too lightly or not at all —used with over

3: to give a gloss to

Origin: 1656 ;

[Verb]  | "gloss" 

1: to provide a gloss for : explain, define

2: interpret

3: to dispose of by false or perverse interpretation

Origin: 1603 ;

 Alteration (after {see: |gloss:3|gloss:3}) of glose, gloze, going back to Middle English glosen, borrowed from Anglo-French gloser, borrowed from Medieval Latin glōsāre, glōssāre, verbal derivative of glōsa, glōssa "commentary on a word or passage, compilation of such commentaries" {mat|gloss:3|};

[Combining form]  | "glosso-" 

1: tongue

2: language : speech

Origin: 

 Borrowed from Greek glōsso-, combining form from glôssa "tongue, language" {mat|gloss:3|};

[Phrasal verb]  | "gloss over" 

1: to treat or describe (something, such as a serious problem or error) as if it were not important

[Noun]  | "gloss" 

[Verb]  | "gloss" 

[Verb]  | "gloss (over)"