Gloss

(glos.) [From Gr. glo a, a dialect.) (Lit.) In Biblical criticism, an explanation of purely verbal difficulties of the text, to the exclusion of those which arise from doctrinal, historical, or ritual sources. (Law.) The explanatory commentaries on the Just in i an code, divided into glo æ margin ales (marginal notes), and glo æ interline a res (interlineations). [s. 412]