Often an oil, such as linseed, was boiled with a resin, such as pine resin or even frankincense ; these were called ' varnishes ' and were prized for their body and gloss.

; 1525 – 1572: Rabbi Moshe Isserles ( The Rema ) of Kraków writes an extensive gloss to the Shulkhan Arukh called the Mappah, extending its application to Ashkenazi Jewry.

In Mecca, in pre-Islamic South Arabia, Allāt, Uzza, and Manah were believed to be the three chief goddesses of Mecca, they were called the " three exalted cranes " ( gharaniq, an obscure word on which ' crane ' is the usual gloss ).

The gloss preserved by Stephen of Byzantium explains that the Greeks called the Trausi the Agathyrsi and we know that the Trausi lived in the Rhodope Mountains.

* At around the same time, a priest named Farman wrote a gloss on the Gospel of Matthew that is preserved in a manuscript called the Rushworth Gospels.

Bultmann has called John 20: 9 " a gloss of the ecclesiastical redaction " and argues that the verse is a later addition to the text.

Stokoe used it for his 1965 A Dictionary of American Sign Language on Linguistic Principles, the first dictionary with entries in ASL — that is, the first dictionary which one could use to look up a sign without first knowing its conventional gloss in English.

A silk spinning moth, the Ailanthus silkmoth ( Samia cynthia ), lives on Ailanthus leaves, and yields a silk more durable and cheaper than mulberry silk, but inferior to it in fineness and gloss.

* glosses on the Constitutiones Clementinae or Clementines of 1317 which became the standard gloss for this text

The Tiferet Yaakov is an important gloss on the Tiferet Yisrael.

Because the Constitution lacks a clear statement authorizing the Federal courts to nullify the acts of coequal branches, critics contend that the argument for judicial review must rely on a significant gloss on the Constitution's terms.

* Ashkenazic Orthodox Jews have traditionally based most of their practices on the Rema, the gloss on the Shulchan Aruch by Rabbi Moses Isserles, reflecting differences between Ashkenazi and Sephardi custom.

It is a " minor gloss ," an " interesting but minor wrinkle on the surface of neo-Darwinian theory ," and " lies firmly within the neo-Darwinian synthesis ".

In these renderings, the phrase becomes an open-ended gloss on God's promise in Exodus 3: 12.

Balasaraswati said that " the effort to purify Bharatanatyam through the introduction of novel ideas is like putting a gloss on burnished gold or painting the lotus ".

Siva is a gloss on ' Ceres dea frumenti '" but cites etymological problems between the potential cognate.

58: a pop-culture gloss for effective reading, with headings based on Nirvana's " Smells Like Teen Spirit "

'" A gloss of the term Upanishad based on Shri Adi Shankara's commentary on the

The departure of the Fleischers had an immediate effect on the studio: the Paramount cartoons of the war years continued to be entertaining and popular and still retained most of the Fleischer style and gloss.

Thus, hanja are often used to clarify meaning, either on their own without the equivalent hangul spelling, or in parentheses after the hangul spelling as a kind of gloss.

Balasaraswati said that " the effort to purify Bharatanatyam through the introduction of novel ideas is like putting a gloss on burnished gold or painting the lotus ".

Anselm's greatest work, an interlinear and marginal gloss on the ' Scriptures ', the Glossa ordinaria, now attributed to him and his followers, was one of the great intellectual achievements of the Middle Ages.

The significance of the gloss, which was most likely assembled after Anselm's death by his students, such as Gilbert de la Porrée, and based on Anselm's teaching, is that it marked a new way of learning — it represented the birth of efforts to present discrete patristic and earlier medieval interpretations of individual verses of Scripture in a readily-accessible, easily-referenced way.

McKinney, who expressed alarm that many books on the art of singing completely ignore or gloss over the issue of female falsetto or insist that women do not have falsetto, argues that many young female singers substitute falsetto for the upper portion of the modal voice.

The young resemble the adults, but are at first without much of the gloss on the sooty plumage.

Hume abandoned doors in the mid-1990s, turning to paintings in household gloss paint on aluminium panel, for these often used appropriated images, including pictures of celebrities ( e. g. DJ Tony Blackburn ) and animals.

Cormac's Glossary ( also 9th century ), and a gloss in the later manuscript H. 3. 18, both explain the plural word gudemain (" spectres ") with the plural form morrígna.

Each set of synonyms ( synset ), has a unique index and shares its properties, such as a gloss ( or dictionary ) definition.

The decoration of these vessels was red figure ( with figures reserved in red clay fabric, while the background was covered in a black gloss ), with overpainting ( sovradipinto ) in white, pink, yellow, and maroon slips.

Occasionally, a major variant happens when a portion of a text was accidentally omitted ( or perhaps even censored ), or was added from a marginal gloss.

This includes external factors as appearance ( size, shape, colour, gloss, and consistency ), texture, and flavour ; factors such as federal grade standards ( e. g. of eggs ) and internal ( chemical, physical, microbial ).

William Hutchinson included a gloss on Night Thoughts in his series of lectures The Spirit of Masonry ( 1775 ), underlining the masonic symbolism of the text.

* the Clementine Constitutions, with the gloss of Johannes Andreae ( 1460 ), 51 leaves

Lip gloss is often used when a person wants to have some color on their lips, but does not want an intense, solid lip color effect ( i. e., a more " made-up " look ), as lipstick would create.

The surfactant must enable a fast rate of polymerization, minimize coagulum or fouling in the reactor and other process equipment, prevent an unacceptably high viscosity during polymerization ( which leads to poor heat transfer ), and maintain or even improve properties in the final product such as tensile strength, gloss, and water absorption.

When the King James Version was written, the translators used an anglicised version — Calvary — of the Latin gloss from the Vulgate ( Calvariæ ), to refer to Golgotha in the Gospel of Luke, rather than translate it ; subsequent uses of Calvary stem from this single translation decision.

Later copies of Luke contain a corresponding verse ( Luke 23: 17 ), though it is not present in the earliest manuscripts, and may be a later gloss to bring Luke into conformity.

These include gloss ( high-gloss shades are sometimes described as " metallic "; this is also a distinguishing feature of gold and silver ), iridescence or goniochromism ( angle-dependent color ), dichroism ( two-color surfaces ), and opacity ( solid vs. translucent ).

As newspapers seek new markets, which often imply higher quality ( more gloss, more contrast ), they may add a heatset tower ( with a dryer ) or use UV ( ultraviolet ) based inks which " cure " on the surface by polymerisation rather than by evaporation or absorption.

Lambertian reflection from polished surfaces are typically accompanied by specular reflection ( gloss ), where the surface luminance is highest when the observer is situated at the perfect reflection direction ( i. e. where the direction of the reflected light is a reflection of the direction of the incident light in the surface ), and falls off sharply.

While it was not copied nearly as often as the more famous Anonymous gloss ( often misattributed to Peter von Danzig ), Ringeck's gloss nevertheless seems to have had a lasting influence.

Okurigana for disambiguation are a partial gloss, and are required: for example, in 下さる, the stem is 下さ ( and does not vary under inflection ), and is pronounced くださ ( kudasa ) – thus 下 corresponds to the reading くだ ( kuda ), followed by さ ( sa ), which is written here kuda-sa.

However, linguist Eric Hamp questions whether this is truly a title, suggesting that Protector may rather be a Latin translation of Uoteporix ( which has essentially the same meaning as the Latin ), a " sort of onomastic explanatory gloss ".