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Definition of Glossing
1. gloss [v] - See also: gloss
Lexicographical Neighbors of Glossing
Literary usage of Glossing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Appeal in Favor of that Class of Americans Called Africans by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1833)
"But by assuming the ground implied in the above remarks, the Colonization Society
have fallen into the habit of glossing over the enormities of the slave ..."
2. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1808)
"... Holborn, in the County of Middlesex, Machinist and Engineer; for a Machine or
Machines for the Purpose of finishing, glazing, and glossing, of Leather. ..."
3. A Manual of Dental Prosthetics by George Henry Wilson (1920)
"glossing.—The glossing is done with the rapidly revolving soft-brush ... With the
beginning of glossing the brush wheel is moistened, but later is run dry. ..."
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