In the course of time Greek grammarians, commenting on the works of Greek authors, used the word glossa to designate first a word of the text which needed some explanation, and next the explanation itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

"glossa" and "tongue": corresponds to the united laciniae of right and left maxillae: see also elytral ligula.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

Lingua spiralis: the spiral tongue of Lepidoptera: see glossa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

But Dahlbeck had been the semanticist who finally saw enough of the basic structure of the Nyarran glossa that he could know how to go about developing an Esperanto for the two races.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Worlds To Conquer]

Walafrid Strabo (809-849), student of Hrabanus Maurus and of Grimald, was a very learned man (even if not the author of the glossa ordinaria), teacher of Charles the Bald, and in the end abbot of Reichenau.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Early Middle Ages 500-1000] Reference

Flabellum: a fan: a leafed structure: the transparent lobe at the end of the glossa in bees: also used as = flagellum; q.v. Flabs: the lobes at the tip of the dipterous mouth: = labella; q.v. Flaccid: feeble: limber: lax.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology] Reference

I. glotta, or glossa, the word employed throughout the New.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smith's Bible Dictionary] Reference

Johannes Andreæ compiled its commentary, or glossa ordinaria.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy] Reference

A gloss (Gk. glossa, Lat. glossa, tongue, speech) is an interpretation or explanation of isolated words.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

The modern English word gloss is derived directly from the Latin glossa, itself a transcript of the Greek glossa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

In classical Greek glossa (Attic glotta) means the tongue or organ of speech and figuratively a tongue or language.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Andr. It is to this famous canonist we owe the "glossa ordinaria" of the "Liber Sextus"; he wrote this glossa about the year.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

# posted by Inter glossa : 9:44 AM inter glossa--I went to your site and found your listing for the book on Winifred Wagner.    From Wordnik.com.  [DesignerBlog] Reference

Some technologies are ancient (lectura, glossa), some new (SIMPLE, standardised clients, mobile phones)  Success in learning means: for staff, the need to compose and orchestrate the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Joannes Andreæ on the "Clementinæ", compiled soon after the appearance of this collection (1317), has become its "glossa ordinaria", with additions however by Franciscus de Zabarellis, later.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Tancredus, archdeacon of Bologna, had written on the first of these collections (the "Breviarium" of Bernard of Pavia) a gloss which was received as its "glossa ordinaria" until the appearance of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

The following tissues are designated as SRM in Japan: the skull including the brain and eyes but excluding the glossa and the masse - ter muscle, the vertebral column excluding the vertebrae of the tail, spinal cord, distal illeum.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The distinction of "tongues" (v. 6, dialektos; v. 11, glossa) was largely one of dialects and the cause of astonishment was that so many of them should be heard simultaneously and from Galileans whose linguistic capacities were presumably underrated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference

(glossa interlinearis) and on the margin of the page (glossa marginalis).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery] Reference

(But that mention of mankind calls me back for a moment, reminding me how he turns glossa into glotta, half robbing me of the tongue itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 01] Reference

AND THAT EVERY TONGUE SHOULD CONFESS: kai pasa glossa exomologesetai (3SAMS): (Ps 18: 49; Mt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

1562), and edited the "Corpus juris canonici" (3 vols. fol., including the glossa, Paris, 1561; 4 vols. 8vo, without the glossa.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman] Reference