Usually means: Explanatory notes or translations added.
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We found 13 dictionaries that define the word glosses:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. glosses: Merriam-Webster
  2. glosses: Collins English Dictionary
  3. glosses: Vocabulary.com
  4. Glosses, glosses: Wordnik
  5. glosses: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. glosses: Wiktionary
  7. glosses: Dictionary.com
  8. glosses: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Glosses: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. glosses: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glosses: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glosses: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. glosses: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (gloss)

noun:  A surface shine or luster.
noun:  (figuratively) A superficially or deceptively attractive appearance.
verb:  (transitive) To give a gloss or sheen to.
verb:  (transitive) To make (something) attractive by deception
verb:  (intransitive) To become shiny.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) Used in a phrasal verb: gloss over (“to cover up a mistake or crime, to treat something with less care than it deserves”).
noun:  (countable) A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
noun:  (countable) Synonym of glossary, a collection of such notes.
noun:  (countable, obsolete) An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
noun:  (countable) An extensive commentary on some text.
noun:  (countable, law, US) An interpretation by a court of a specific point within a statute or case law.
noun:  (lexicography) A definition or explanation of a word sense.
verb:  (transitive) To add a gloss to (a text).
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