Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A writer of glosses; a glossarist.
  • noun A polisher; one who gives a luster to something.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A polisher; one who gives a luster.
  • noun A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator.

Etymologies

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gloss +‎ -er

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  • He that should force the same signification upon the world in that triple mention of it would be an egregious glosser: for in the first, it plainly signifieth some part of the habitable earth, and is taken subjectivè merikōs; in the second, the whole frame of heaven and earth, and is taken subjectivè holikōs; and, in the third, for some men living in the earth, — namely, unbelievers, who may be said to be the world adjunctivè.

    The Death of Death in the Death of Christ 1616-1683 1967

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