GLOSS
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 pronouncement about meaning; an interpretation <the statutory language needs no
Gloss [Blacks Law 8th]