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Just barely covering, with "over"
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glossing
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Word definitions for glossing in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gloss \Gloss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Glossed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Glossing .] To give a superficial luster or gloss to; to make smooth and shining; as, to gloss cloth. The glossed and gleamy wave. --J. R. Drake.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The addition of a gloss, or explanatory note. vb. (present participle of gloss English)
Usage examples of glossing.
Ninety percent of me wanted to believe Stephen and Niles, but ten percent felt it was a bit of a semantic trick, word play like Gould’s “nonoverlapping magisteria” of religion and science, glossing over a thorny issue, in this case that the fossil record didn’t show what Darwin predicted it would, with bafflegab—as though giving a fancy name to the problem was the same as solving it.