gloss

They draw this distinction when it is too late, and use it as a quibble to gloss over their fault.

This filler should be very thin and leave only a suggestion of gloss.

Nor did he try to gloss over or strive to nullify his own dishonorable actions.

What could gloss over the base return he made them for all their hospitalities and attention?

One does not care to own a girl as tall as that while the gloss is on one's hair.

Let me finish the article; I 'II give it the gloss for sale!

If it only gloss over the working of human sympathy, we pity the men.

They undoubtedly received a gloss from the ages which transmitted the tales.

The word is explained by a gloss, 'Shamash has made him great.'

After dyeing it is sized to stiffen it, and also to increase the gloss on the cloth.