/gloss/

 

/gloss/

-) Verb. 

-) Pronunciation: glɒs.

-) Etymology: denominative verb from the noun GLOSS (= lustre), which is often confused with the verb GLOSS (= to explain with glosses). The noun GLOSS (= lustre) is of uncertain origin.

-) Third-person singular simple present: she/he glosses. 

-) Preterite tense, preterite participle: glossed.

-) Present participle: glossing.

-) It is dated from the end of 1600.

Transitively: 1. To render (something) glossy; this is, to cause either by art or naturally to become lustrous, bright; to make to gain a shining upon its surface; to surface (a body) with such polishing or illumination as to become bright.

-) Antonyms of “gloss”: to dislustre, opaque, obscure, dim.

-) Synonyms for “gloss”: to brighten, glaze, shine, gloze.

-) Translation: lustrar, in Spanish; lustrare, in Italian; lustrer, in French.

Arrived at the summit of the mountain, we entered upon the glacier, but found great difficulty in keeping our feet. The sun had glossed the surface, and rendered it almost impossible to tread with any degree of security.

John Owen… Travels…1796

The length of this species [American Redstart] is five inches; extent, six and a quarter; the general colour above is black, which covers the whole head and neck, and spreads on the upper part of the breast in a rounding form, where, as well as on the head and neck, it is glossed with steel blue.

Alexander Wilson… American Ornithology 1828

In the species referred to, the color of the surface is black, glossed with violet, the upper wings with two wide transverse red bands, one near the base, the other beyond the middle.

James Duncan – William Jardine… Foreign butterflies 1837

[…] he saw her eyes glossed with tears.

Shayla Black… Seduce me in Shadow 2009

2. Metaphor: to dissimulate (something relatable, tellable or utterable) with speciousness, euphemism or gloss.

-) Synonyms: to euphonize, palliate, misrepresent, whitewash.

-) Translation: disimular (algo) agraciándolo verbalmente, in Spanish; dissimulare (qualcosa) aggraziandola verbalmente, in Italian; dissimuler (quelque chose) en la gracieusant verbalement, in French.

 […] that not one of these knights, your lealest and noblest friends, can say of me that I ever stooped to gloss mine acts, or palliate bold deeds with wily words.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton… The Last of The Barons 1843

By the time their coffee was boiled and their bacon fried, each one knew the other's past history and tentative plans for the future, censored and glossed somewhat by the teller but received without question or criticism.

B. M. Bower… The Trail… 1922

-) With the adverb over, to reinforce the connotation of superficialness:

The aim of Mr. Tierney was to extract some information on this subject; and […] Castlereagh, in his reply, admitted the rumour to be true, but glossed it over in such a manner as to make it appear that the people would eventually be the gainers by the false appropriation of the money.

Robert Huish… Memoirs of George… 1830

[…] Francis and Lady De Lisle heard their son announce his intended journey with surprise and dismay. But he glossed it over so well, talked so slightly of the plan, and appeared to think the execution would be so rapid, that they tried to [… become] reconciled to what it was evident they could not prevent.

Elizabeth Grey… De Lisle 1828

If those rules are disregarded by the principals in the quarrel, our countrymen become accessories to murder. It is neither more nor less than this; and nothing can be more futile than attempting to conceal or to gloss it over.

The Edinburgh review 1837

The Duke of York did not even yet publicly claim the crown. The rising against Henry was glossed over under the pretext of having been undertaken in order to rescue the king from evil ministers.

Edward Creasy… Memoirs of… Etonians 1850

He could not understand how she found any motive strong enough to induce her to it, or by what species of rhetoric she glossed it over to her conscience.

The Irish metropolitan magazine 1858

-) English words derived from the noun gloss: glossing, gloss (adv.), glossed, glosser, glossless, glossy, glossily, glossiness.