(glôs, glos) noun
1. The brightness or sheen of a polished surface.
2. A deceptive or superficial show.
—v.t.
1. To make smooth or lustrous, as by polishing or buffing.
2. To hide or attempt to hide (errors, defects, etc.) by falsehood or equivocation: with over.
—v.i.
3. To become shiny. [<Scand. Cf. ON glossi blaze, spark.]
—gloss′er noun

(glôs, glos) noun
1. An explanatory note; especially, a marginal or interlinear note.
2. A glossary.
3. A plausible explanation to cover fault or defect.
—v.t.
1. To write marginal explanations for (a text, word, etc.); annotate.
2. To excuse or change by false explanations: to gloss the truth of a matter.
—v.i.
3. To make glosses. [<OF glose a note <L glossa a difficult word (in a text) <Gk. glōssa a foreign word; orig., tongue]
—gloss′er noun