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Webster 1828 Edition

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Giving luster to; polishing; explaining by comments; giving a specious appearance.

glossing

glossing ‎(plural glossings)

The addition of a gloss, or explanatory note.
- 2012, C. Scott Dixon, Contesting the Reformation
  And it was in this university that the doctors began to sharpen their wits in matters of Holy Writ; they rejected the glossings and musings of interpreters and took the biblical writings to hand, preaching and writing thereof.