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▪ I. glosser1|ˈglɒsə(r)|
[f. gloss v.1 + -er1.]
One who glosses a text; = glossator.
1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. xviii. 365 The Glossers are besides their text. 1643Caryl Sacr. Covt. 29 Woe be unto those glossers that corrupt the Text. 1708Hearne Collect. 24 Dec. (O.H.S.) II. 159 Fermannus the Glosser and Interpreter of Rushworth's MS. of the Gospels. 1747Warburton Shaks. Wks. 1778 VII. 284 The late Roman writers and their glossers agree to give this sense to it [a word]. 1886Stubbs Lect. Med. & Mod. Hist. xiii. 307 The opinions of the glossers are often cited as of equal authority with the letter of the law.
▪ II. glosser2|ˈglɒsə(r)|
[f. gloss v.2 + -er1.]
One who puts on a gloss (in either a material or immaterial sense).
1828–32in Webster. 1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 204 Croppers, singers, glossers, pressers, brushers, and steamers. 1889B. Whitby Awakening M. Fenwick III. ii. 58 A poet was..an exaggerator of trifles..a glosser of facts.
▪ III. † ˈglosser3 Obs.
Also 6 gloser.
[Of unknown origin; possibly a misprint for gloffer (the genuineness of which is attested by the alphabetical position of gloffare, gloffynge in the Winchester MS. of Promp. Parv.); but in the 3 quots. below the reading of the original editions is clearly glo(s)ser, glossyng. Cf. glowsing vbl. n.]
A glutton. So also ˈglossing vbl. n., gluttonous eating.
1549Latimer Serm. bef. Edw. VI, iii. E vij b, Some sayed..that he had a Deuyll wythin him, a gloser, a drincker, a pot-companion. Ibid. vi. T iiij, They were wonte to goo a brode in the fyeldes a shootynge, but nowe it is turned in to glossing, gullyng, and whoringe wythin the housse. 1560Becon Jewel of Joy Wks. II. 27 They..fall to banketynge, drynkyng, gullyng and glossyng, to hunting..and al the dayes of their life they liue dissolutely. |