Definition of Glosses

1. Noun. (plural of gloss) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glosses

1. gloss [v] - See also: gloss

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glosses

glossarists
glossary
glossas
glossata
glossator
glossators
glossatrices
glossatrix
glossectomy
glossed
glossed over
glosseme
glossemes
glosser
glossers
glosses (current term)
glosses over
glossic
glossier
glossies
glossiest
glossily
glossinas
glossiness
glossinesses
glossing
glossing over
glossinid
glossinidae
glossinids

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. ..."

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