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glossn.1

Brit. /ɡlɒs/, U.S. /ɡlɔs/, /ɡlɑs/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s glosse, 1600s–1700s glos.
Etymology: variant of glose, gloze n., refashioned in 16th cent. after Latin glōssa , Greek γλῶσσα in the same sense. (In the 15th cent. the spelling glosse appears occasionally for glos(e gloze n., gloze v.1; see those words.)
1.
a. A word inserted between the lines or in the margin as an explanatory equivalent of a foreign or otherwise difficult word in the text; hence applied to a similar explanatory rendering of a word given in a glossary or dictionary. Also, in a wider sense, a comment, explanation, interpretation. Often used in a sinister sense: A sophistical or disingenuous interpretation. (Cf. gloze n. 1.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun] > an explanation, exposition, account
reasonc1300
interpretation1390
gloss1548
esclarishment1549
demonstration1559
resolution1582
elucidary1603
elucidation1667
éclaircissement1673
expositive1687
mise au point1929
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > gloss
gloze1340
gloss1548
exegesis1600
glossem1608
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Matt. xxiii. 108 Like as by a glosse ye subuerte the commaundement.
1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 23 v The Cannon Text shall haue a common glosse.
1608 Bp. J. Hall Characters Vertues & Vices i. 15 Neither doth his tongue..make good a lie with the secret glosses of double or reserued senses.
1622 A. Sparrow Rationale Bk. Common Prayer (1661) 66 The Church rather uses this..then any other Glosse or Paraphrase.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 3 The waies of future providence may be looked upon as a glosse of those Prophesies.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost v. 435 They..to thir viands fell,..nor in mist, the common gloss Of Theologians, but with..real hunger. View more context for this quotation
1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. ix. 641 The gloss indeed destroys the text, by pretending the word [etc.].
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 21 Malicious Glosses made upon all he had said.
a1708 W. Beveridge Private Thoughts Christian Life (1712) 79 Nothing being more needful than to rescue the words of our blessed Saviour from those false Glosses.
1767 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (new ed.) II. 495 A gloss of pope Innocent IV, written about the year 1250.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Notes & Lect. on Shakespeare (1875) 134 A parenthesis or gloss slipt into the text.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. i. 82 Irnerius..began the practice of making glosses, or short marginal explanations, on the law books.
1868 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold III. v. ii. 363 Secret glosses..intended to make that part of the contract a nullity.
1875 W. D. Whitney Life & Growth Lang. x. 183 The Cymric includes the Welsh, with ‘glosses’ from the ninth century.
b. A collection of such explanations, a glossary; also, an interlinear translation of, or series of verbal explanations upon, a continuous text.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > [noun] > gloss > collection of
glossarya1380
gloss1579
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > translation > [noun]
remeninga1382
translatinga1382
translationa1382
interpretation1382
interpretingc1384
reducing?a1425
traductiona1533
conversion1586
reddition1609
renderinga1653
rendition1653
transposition1653
transfusion1700
gloss1756
reduction1826
transc1877
machine-aided translation1966
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. §4 A..Glosse or scholion, for the exposition of old wordes.
1756 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. I. 466 A manuscript Homer, with a gloss interlined, said to be five hundred years old.
1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. Diss. ii. sig. E3v A manuscript..of Ovid's Art of Love, in very antient Saxon characters, accompanied with a British gloss.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 368 E. K..., whose gloss has preserved much curious knowledge of ancient English terms and phrases.
1894 J. R. C. Hall Anglo-Saxon Dict. Pref. Mostly obscure words only found in glosses.
c. In the sense of Greek γλῶσσα: A foreign or other obscure word, requiring explanation. Obsolete. rare. (Hardly an English sense, though given in some recent dictionaries, apparently on the ground of quot. 1837).
ΚΠ
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 28 The interpretations of obscure termes, which we call Glosses.
1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. i. 83 A gloss, γλῶσσα, properly meant a word from a foreign language, or an obsolete or poetical word, or whatever requires interpretation.
2. A poetical composition in which a stanza of some well-known poem is treated as a text for amplification, each of the successive stanzas of the ‘gloss’ being made to end with one of the lines or couplets of the text.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > types of poem according to form > [noun] > gloss
gloss1598
gloze1823
1598 B. Yong tr. G. Polo Enamoured Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana 437 He sung a glosse vpon this Dittie.
1823 T. Roscoe tr. J. C. L. de Sismondi Hist. Lit. Europe IV. xxxix. 442 Each verse of the text is intended to form the subject of a strophe in the gloss or comment.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.
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1624 W. Bedell Copies Certaine Lett. iii. 64 Although the Glosse writer were no excellent Calculator.
1648 W. Jenkyn Ὁδηγος Τυϕλος iv. 87 According to G. the glossmaker.
1888 G. W. Prothero Life Bradshaw 237 A gloss-hunt was a genuine relaxation to him.
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glossn.2

Brit. /ɡlɒs/, U.S. /ɡlɔs/, /ɡlɑs/
Forms: Also 1500s–1600s glosse; and see glass n.1 13
Etymology: First recorded in 16th cent.; compare Dutch (obsolete) gloos a glowing, gleaming = Middle High German glos , glose (still extant in Swiss dialects); Swedish (dialect) glossa , glåsa to gleam, glow (of coals), to shine (of cloth), Icelandic glossi a blaze (see gloze v.3). A variant glass (see glass n.1 13) appears about the same date, perhaps as a substitute for the less familiar word.
1.
a. Superficial lustre. Also plural.
ΘΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > lustre or shine from reflected light
orientness1519
lustrec1522
gloss1538
brightshine1573
shine1601
sheen1604
polishing1611
polish1629
oriencya1651
glare1658
glossiness1680
nitency1768
varnish1841
burnishing1851
orience1858
shininess1872
patina1931
1538 T. Elyot Dict. Cantharis uel Cantharida..a greene worme shynynge with a glosse of golde.
1553 T. Wilson Arte of Rhetorique 65 Beinge in the rayne,..[he] standeth naked himself, for savynge the glosse of his gaye coate.
1594 H. Plat Jewell House 72 Some maintaine the glosse of this leather with a peece of black veluet onely.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) ii. i. 68 Our Garments being..drencht in the Sea, hold notwithstanding their freshnesse and glosses.
1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xiii. 221 They set a Gloss on it [sc. Hard Wood] with a very dry Woollen Rag, lightly smear'd with Sallad Oyl.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 157 Which [pebbles] all took so specious and elegant a gloss, that [etc.].
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 396 Its [sc. the Carcajou's] fur is held in the highest estimation, for its..beautiful gloss.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 249 Upper parts of the body brilliant copper-colour, with a golden gloss.
1855 Ld. Tennyson Maud xxi. ix, in Maud & Other Poems 71 In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls.
1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. i. 15 Amaranthine glosses came over them [clouds].
b. In obvious figurative uses. Also (sometimes perhaps confused with gloss n.1), a deceptive appearance, fair semblance, plausible pretext.
ΘΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > [noun]
hue971
glozea1300
showingc1300
coloura1325
illusionc1340
frontc1374
simulationc1380
visage1390
cheera1393
sign?a1425
countenance?c1425
study?c1430
cloak1526
false colour1531
visure1531
face1542
masquery?1544
show1547
gloss1548
glass1552
affectation1561
colourableness1571
fashion1571
personage?1571
ostentation1607
disguise1632
lustrementa1641
grimace1655
varnish1662
masquerade1674
guisea1677
whitewash1730
varnish1743
maya1789
vraisemblance1802
Japan1856
veneering1865
veneer1868
affectedness1873
candy coating1885
simulance1885
window dressing1903
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xii. 1–7 Beware ye that all your life bee void of all cloking or countrefaicte glosse [L. ut omnis uita uestra fuco careat].
1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. 401 (margin) In the glosse of their glorie..that is, when they were most famous.
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E3v He much more goodly glosse thereon doth shed, To hide his falshood, then if it were trew. View more context for this quotation
1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 11 King Iohn..in furthring of this new waterworke..set a fresh glosse vppon it [sc. Yarmouth].
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida ii. iii. 118 Yet all his vertues..Doe in our eyes begin to lose their glosse . View more context for this quotation
1640 J. Yorke Union of Honour 1 The first Glosse that William Duke of Normandy had for this Crowne and Diadem of England, was thus.
1652 N. Culpeper Eng. Physitian Enlarged (1809) 19 To put a gloss upon their practice, the physicians call an herb..Archangel.
1660 T. M. Walker's Hist. Independency IV. 28 The better to cast a seeming gloss of legality upon his usurpation, he summons another Parliament.
a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 249 Art, That sets a Gloss on what's amiss.
1733 J. Swift Epist. to Lady 6 You, like some acute Philosopher, Ev'ry Fault have drawn a Gloss over.
1757 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society (ed. 2) Pref. p. ix There is a sort of Gloss upon ingenious Falsehoods, that dazzles the Imagination.
1761–2 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1806) III. xxxix. 278 A woman thus..provides only thin glosses to cover her exceptionable conduct.
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 6 The most trifling occurrences give pleasure, till the gloss of novelty is worn away.
1834 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. (1837) I. iii. 45 The false gloss of a mere worldly refinement makes us decent and amiable.
1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin I. xv. 224 As the glosses and civilities of the honeymoon wore away, he discovered that [etc.].
1872 J. S. Blackie Lays of Highlands 24 I have used no gloss, no varnish To make fair things fairer look.
2. A layer of glowing matter. rare. Also dialect of a fire: A bright glow.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > glowing layer in a fire
gloss1762
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze > flaming or blazing > the glowing of flame > a bright glow of fire
gloss1893
1762 Gentleman's Mag. July 338/2 The earth being all on a fiery gloss for four inches deep.
c1817 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches IV. 54 The smith..covered the gloss neatly up with a mixture of small coals, culm, and cinders.
1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Ye can bake the cyek noo; the fire hes a fine gloss.
3. = glaze n. 1. Obsolete.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 470 The earthenware is now ready to receive the smooth coating called glaze or gloss.

Compounds

C1.
gloss-fireman n. (now glost-fireman (see glost n.).)
Π
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 474 The gloss-fireman raises the temperature as quickly as possible to a height sufficient to fuse the glaze.
gloss-oven n. (now glost-oven (see glost n.).)
ΘΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > kiln > [noun] > pottery kilns
pot-oven1702
biscuit oven1768
gloss-oven1825
glaze-kiln1839
porcelain kiln1848
grand feu1850
smother-kiln1851
bisque1853
muffle kiln1853
muffle1875
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 474 The gloss-oven is sometimes fired to a greater degree of heat than some colours will bear.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Glost-Oven.
1882 W. Worc. Gloss. Glost-oven.]
C2.
gloss enamel n. = gloss paint n.
ΘΠ
the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > paint > types of
oila1536
primera1650
wash1698
paint oil1727
flat tint1821
flat1823
flatting1823
distemper1837
kalsomine1840
oil filler1846
calcimine1864
tube-colour1881
Ripolin1899
gloss enamel1908
gloss paint1926
jelly paint1958
silicate paint-
1908 Sears, Roebuck Catal. No. 117. 74/1 Seroco gloss enamel—a high gloss interior paint.
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 297 Jackson's gloss black enamel.
gloss-meter n. a photometric device for measuring the gloss of surfaces.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > reflection > [noun] > instrument
Fresnel's rhomb1835
Fresnel('s) mirror or mirrors1874
reflectometer1879
gloss-meter1930
Brewster window1965
1930 Jrnl. Optical Soc. Amer. 20 24 The entire range of objective gloss..may be covered. The essentials of the gloss-meter are shown in Fig. 1.
1961 J. H. Goodier Dict. Painting & Decorating 118 The gloss meter works on the principle of directing a beam of light on to a painted panel and allowing the reflected beam to excite a galvanometer.
1962 New Scientist 10 May 299/3 Though the instrument has been developed specifically for pearls, the principle of the glossmeter can be adapted for measurements of the gloss of ball bearings and other industrial items with curved surfaces whose gloss may be a criterion of their excellence.
gloss paint n. paint that contains varnish and gives a glossy finish.
ΘΠ
the world > matter > colour > colouring > colouring matter > [noun] > paint > types of
oila1536
primera1650
wash1698
paint oil1727
flat tint1821
flat1823
flatting1823
distemper1837
kalsomine1840
oil filler1846
calcimine1864
tube-colour1881
Ripolin1899
gloss enamel1908
gloss paint1926
jelly paint1958
silicate paint-
1926–7 Army & Navy Stores Catal. 299/1 Hard gloss finishing paint.
1933 Drugs, Oils & Paints Apr. 135/1 Portions of both the one and two-coat finishes are then given a final coat of gloss paint.
1960 House & Garden June 72/2 Gloss paints seem to get better and better in quality.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

glossv.1

Brit. /ɡlɒs/, U.S. /ɡlɔs/, /ɡlɑs/
Etymology: < gloss n.1
1.
a. transitive. To insert glosses or comments on; to comment upon, explain, interpret; = gloze v.1 1.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > literary criticism > commentary > write commentary on [verb (transitive)] > gloss
glozec1390
gloss1603
glossate1884
1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. i. xi. 21 Some that studie, plod, and glosse their Almanackes.
1615 T. Adams White Deuill (ed. 4) 88 For all his big words, his stomach comes downe, If I may take leaue to glosse it.
1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 144 ‘My beloved is white, and ruddy’.. is thus glossed, ‘white’ in his life, ‘ruddy’ in his death.
1643 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce 39 Kimchi and the two other Rabbies who glosse the text, are in the same opinion.
1809 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 1 219 This accursed custom was not known when the Institutes of Menu were written, nor when they were glossed by Calidas.
1864 E. B. Pusey Daniel vi. 377 He manifoldly glossed the text.
1866 Reader 16 June 580 Sir F. Madden can hardly have been the first editor who glossed the word.
b. intransitive. To introduce a gloss, comment, or explanation upon a word or passage in a text. Also in wider sense, to make comments or remarks (esp. unfavourable ones) upon a person's words or actions. Const. on, upon, †at. (Cf. gloze v.1 1b.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > comment [verb (intransitive)]
glozec1380
gloss1579
scance1606
comment1611
annotate1733
commentate1828
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Ep. Ded. §4 Which maner of glossing and commenting.
1639 T. B. tr. J.-P. Camus Certain Moral Relations in S. Du Verger tr. J.-P. Camus Admirable Events 301 He was so jealous of Eleusipe, that he glossed on all her words..and on the smallest of her actions.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vii. v. 327 I may fairly thus gloss at his whole Discourse upon this Argument.
1657 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms lxxxvi. 1 So Basil glosseth here.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 948 Bearing my words and doings to the Lords To gloss upon, and censuring, frown or smile. View more context for this quotation
1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 293 Psellus thus glossing upon that Oracle.
1718 M. Prior Solomon on Vanity ii, in Poems Several Occasions (new ed.) 459 Some gloss'd, how love and wisdom were at strife.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. vi. 115 In penning those Laws which they assumed the Liberty of interpreting and glossing upon at their Pleasure.
1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. i. 15 The Celts seem to have had a special habit of glossing.
2. transitive. To veil with glosses; to explain away; to read a different sense into. Also with away, over (the latter perhaps influenced by gloss v.2). (Cf. gloze v.1 2.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > misinterpretation > distortion or perversion of meaning > pervert or distort [verb (transitive)]
crooka1340
deprave1382
pervertc1390
strainc1449
drawc1450
miswrest?a1475
bewrya1522
wry?1521
to make a Welshman's hose ofa1529
writhea1533
wrest1533
invert1534
wring?1541
depravate1548
rack1548
violent1549
wrench1549
train1551
wreathe1556
throw1558
detorta1575
shuffle1589
wriggle1593
distortc1595
to put, set, place, etc. on the rack1599
twine1600
wire-draw1610
monstrify1617
screw1628
corrupt1630
gloss1638
torture1648
force1662
vex1678
refract1700
warp1717
to put a force upon1729
twist1821
ply1988
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > semblance, outward show > present speciously [verb (transitive)] > improve appearance
paintc1390
set1540
daub1543
plaster1546
varnish1571
to gild over1574
adorn1589
parget1592
glaze1605
apparel1615
pranka1616
lustre1627
candidate1628
varnish1641
lacquer1688
whitewash1703
tinsel1748
duff1750
fineer1765
veneer1847
superficialize1851
gloss1879
window dress1913
beglamour1926
sportswash2012
1638 W. Chillingworth Relig. Protestants i. vii. §7. 390 If you may glosse the Text so farre..why should you not glosse it a little farther?
1715 R. Bentley Serm. Popery 20 Who have gloss'd and warp'd all the severe Rules of the Gospel about Chastity.
1764 C. Churchill Candidate 35 With nice distinctions glossing o'er the text.
1852 H. Rogers Eclipse of Faith 226 The Pharisees, who were sunk in formalism, and who had glossed away every moral and spiritual precept of the Law.
1865 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (new ed.) VIII. lxiv. 99 He could hardly resist the temptation to pervert or gloss the truth.
1879 Q. Rev. Apr. 325 Difficulties which their school has been in the habit of glossing over with conventional but inadequate explanations.
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glossv.2

Brit. /ɡlɒs/, U.S. /ɡlɔs/, /ɡlɑs/
Forms: 1500s glos, 1600s– gloss.
Etymology: < gloss n.2
transitive. To put a gloss upon.
a. In immaterial sense: To give a fair appearance to; to veil in specious language. Also with over, and in indirect passive. The earlier quots. may be a development of gloss v.1 1 influenced by gloss n.2
ΘΚΠ
society > morality > duty or obligation > moral or legal constraint > immunity or exemption from liability > excuse > excuse (a person or fault) [verb (transitive)] > extenuate
whiteOE
gloze1390
colourc1400
emplasterc1405
littlec1450
polish?c1450
daub1543
plaster1546
blanch1548
flatter1552
extenuate1570
alleviate1577
soothe1587
mincea1591
soothe1592
palliate1604
sweeten1635
rarefy1637
mitigate1651
glossa1656
whitewash1703
qualify1749
a1656 J. Ussher Ann. World (1658) vi. 511 His expedition was glossed with the specious pretence of settling Ariobarzanes the new Elect in his kingdom.
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iv. 53 Christians have handsomely glossed the deformity of death, by careful consideration of the body.
1659 H. Hammond Paraphr. & Annot. Psalms (lxii. 4 Paraphr.) 309 And this traiterous designe they glosse and varnish over with fair flattering language.
1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. vii. 131 He glosses over that same Wickedness, dresses it up in a new Form.
a1743 Ld. Hervey Flora to Pompey in Dodsley Coll. Poems (1782) IV. 96 Urge not, to gloss thy crime, the name of friend.
1764 S. Foote Lyar ii. 23 His friends, who are tender of his fame, gloss over his foible, by calling him an agreeable novelist.
1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax II. vii. 156 Such transactions..were yet generally glossed over, as if a certain discredit attached to them.
1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 30 Sept. Mr. Chalmers..would fain gloss over the hardships he has suffered.
b. In material sense: To render bright and glossy; to glaze.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [verb (transitive)] > polish or cause to shine with reflected light
frot?c1225
burnishc1325
polisha1382
varnishc1405
silvera1592
shine1604
frub1611
rutilate1623
silken1757
gloss1762
pearl1843
gloze1880
lap1881
sheen1901
1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching New Syst. Geogr. II. 347 Black armozins are glossed by a decoction of beer and Seville oranges.
1796 J. Owen Trav. Europe I. 227 We entered upon the Glacier, but found great difficulty in keeping our feet. The sun had glossed the surface.
1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 255 The back is black, glossed with blue.
1801 R. Southey Thalaba I. v. 292 The moonlight fell, glossing the sable tide That gushed tumultuous out.
1828 J. Stark Elements Nat. Hist. I. 249 The head red, glossed with bronze.

Derivatives

ˈglossing n. also attributive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > light > reflection > [noun] > lustre or shine from reflected light > making reflective or lustrous
glossing1875
lapping1877
the world > space > shape > flatness or levelness > smoothness > [noun] > polished or glossy smoothness > action, fact, or condition of
polishing1419
polishment1594
polishure1611
polish1629
glossing1875
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Glossing, an operation upon silk thread by which it is moistened with steam and stretched to develop a gloss.
1893 Queen 4 Feb. 197/3 Pressing them pretty heavily with the glossing iron.
1897 C. T. Davis Manuf. Leather (ed. 2) 614 Glossing of ordinary leather is very frequently effected by brushing the leather over with a rind of bacon and rubbing [etc.]. For finer qualities of leather a glossing mass consisting of a fat-emulsion..may be advantageously used.
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glossadv.

Brit. /ɡlɒs/, U.S. /ɡlɔs/, /ɡlɑs/
Etymology: < gloss n.2
Ceramics.
Glossily; so as to have a gloss.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > pottery-making or ceramics > [adverb] > so as to have a gloss
gloss1825
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 476 The pottery..for gold lustre is made of the red clay of the district, and when fired gloss, has just a sufficient tint left to give to the articles that peculiar colour on them.
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