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Fitted for digging, adapted for burrowing or digging; as, a fossorial foot; a fossorial animal.

Adapted for digging; -- said of the legs of certain insects.

Having, or surrounded by, long, narrow depressions or furrows.

Bbrightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss. It is no part . . . to set on the face of this cause any fairer gloss than the naked truth doth afford. Hooker.

The tongue, or lingua, of an insect. See Hymenoptera.

Of or pertaining to the tongue; lingual.

A disease of horses and cattle accompanied by carbuncles in the mouth and on the tongue.

Of or pertaining to glosses or to a glossary; containing a glossary.

In the manner of a glossary.

A writer of glosses or of a glossary; a commentator; a scholiast. Tyrwhitt.

A collection of glosses or explanations of words and passages of a work or author; a partial dictionary of a work, an author, a dialect, art, or science, explaining archaic, technical, or other uncommon words.

The Lepidoptera.

A writer of glosses or comments; a commentator. [R.] "The . . . glossators of Aristotle." Milman.

A writer of glosses; a scholiast; a commentator. L. Addison.

A system of phonetic spelling based upon the present values of English letters, but invariably using one symbol to represent one sound only. Ingglish Glosik konvaiA. J. Ellis.

In a glossy manner.

The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface. Boyle.

A writer of comments. [Obs.] Milton.

Inflammation of the tongue.

Like gloss; specious. Cowley.