GLOSS

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) hi the Rhetoric of lie, tinward is used in the sense of a foreign, obsolete,or otherwise strange idiom; width, judiciously employed,In;leckous among the ornaments of style, i'roin the m •-thing requiring Interpretation" the word 10 mean the interpretation itsell; Strictly, of a single word or phrase. In the twelfth century, the comment* or annotations of learned jurists on pMMgei in the text of the Soman law were denominated gloaees; when IheM extended to a running commentary, they were termed an apparatus. The I ■llectcd by Accursius in the I3lh century, and from that period they famed for a long lime a body of aulhoiily reckoned equal or even superior to the text Itself, GLOSSARY, (l.at. glo armm.; A dictionary of difficult words ami phrases in any language or writer; somer a dictionary of words in general. Of all the works published under the title of glo ary, the most celebrated by far is the Glo arium Media it Infimai Latin it at is of Du Cange. The best edition of this learned and admirable work E that edited by Carpenter, in G vols, folio, 1733- 1730. Carpenlicr's Supplement, in 4 vols, folio, 1706, is an Indispensable addition. GLOTTIS. 'Gr. yAwrra, the tongue.) The superior opening of the larynx or windpipe. [s. 535]