glossing

English

Verb

glossing

1. present participle of gloss

Noun

glossing (plural glossings)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• goslings