glosses

noun

1
A brief explanatory note or translation of a foreign, archaic, technical, difficult, complex, or uncommon expression, inserted after the original, in the margin of a document, or between lines of a text.
2
A glossary; a collection of such notes.
3
An expression requiring such explanatory treatment.
4
An extensive commentary on some text.
5
A brief explanation in speech or in a written work, including a synonym used with the intent of indicating the meaning of the word to which it is applied
6
An interpretation by a court of specific point within a statute or case law

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