A statement, narrative, or speech; a remark or observation; an account or explanation of, or answer to, something. Also as a mass noun: speech…

An explanation given; a way of interpreting or explaining; †a comment, a commentary (obsolete).

A word inserted between the lines or in the margin as an explanatory equivalent of a foreign or otherwise difficult word in the text; hence applied…

A clearing up, explanation.

An illustration. Obsolete. rare.

An explanatory account of something. Obsolete.

An explanatory treatise or commentary; an explanation.

That which serves to elucidate or clear up; an explanation, demonstration, or illustration.

A clearing up or revelation of what is obscure or unknown; an explanation.

An explanation, ‘argument’. Obsolete.

A clarification or bringing into focus of an obscure subject, problem, etc.