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Definition of Glosses
1. gloss [v] - See also: gloss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glosses
Literary usage of Glosses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, Volume 93 by Harvard University (1898)
"(The glosses are added by a different hand from the hand of the text. ... In the
first there is another collection of glosses in the proper sense of the ..."
2. Transactions of the Philological Society by Philological Society (Great Britain). (1893)
"132-133) was the first to call attention to the Old-Irish glosses, which are found in
... Thilo printed six of these glosses, which were reprinted by Zimmer ..."
3. The Journal of Philology by William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson (1882)
"OLD GERMAN glosses FROM A BODLEIAN MANUSCRIPT. THE Manuscript which contains the
following glosses is in the Bodleian Library at Oxford ..."
4. The oldest English texts by Henry Sweet, Durham Cathedral, Catholic Church (1885)
"These glosses occur in the early eighth century psalter in the library ...
Many of the glosses are much rubbed and worn away so as to be difficult to read. ..."
5. American Journal of Philology by Project Muse, JSTOR (Organization) (1908)
"Though years ago I had conceived the idea and collected some proof for it that
Gildas must be among the sources of glosses in the ..."
6. Anglo-Saxon and Old English Vocabularies by Thomas Wright (1884)
"87 r»), into another series of miscellaneous Anglo - Saxon glosses, which are
not, except partially at the beginning, in alphabetical order. ..."