Its general color is rich velvety brown, glossed with lilac; the under parts are varied with rich olive green, and the head, throat, and two middle tail feathers are brilliant metallic green.
They are generally black, glossed with blue, and have a patch of bright blue on each shoulder.
Crown of her head and hind neck dusky, faintly glossed with green, and with the rudiments of a crest; cheeks dusky brown.
Back, tail-coverts and tail black, splendidly glossed with metallic lustre of rich blue-green and purple.
Wing-coverts and primaries brown, glossed with blue and green, outer webs of the primaries silvery white; secondaries glossy blue-black.
In Irish of the 8th and 9th centuries (Zeuss) cithara is always glossedby "crot.
The confusion doubtless arose from the fact that from the 11th century cithara is glossed hearpan in Anglo-Saxon MSS.
I do not like the way in which this great section of the "Past" of Wall Street is glossed over.
Lower breast, abdomen, and crissum black, glossed with green or blue.
Upper parts glossedwith green or steel-blue; tail deeply forked, and sometimes very long.
The tail and secondaries are glossed with green and blue in about equal proportions.
The anal angle is deep black, glossed with iridescent blue.
Small butterflies, with the upper side of the wings some shade of coppery-red or orange, frequently glossed with purple.
Dark brown, glossed at the base of the wings and on the inner margin of the secondaries with blue.
The wings brown, glossed with bright blue above; on the under side pale fawn, with a band of pale-red spots on both wings about the middle, and a few similar spots on the outer and inner margins of the hind wings.
The butterflies are characterized by the dark-brown or black ground-color of the upper side, generally glossed with rich blue or purple.
The marginal spots are bright yellow, slightly glossed with silver.
The female is brownish-gray on the upper side, with the wings at their base glossed with blue.
The upper side of the hind wings is black, glossedwith blue, having a marginal row of fulvous and a submarginal row of cream-colored spots.
The upper side of the wings is brown, glossed with green at the base of both wings.
It is like the common king-crow in appearance, but the plumage is glossed with a bronze sheen, and the tail is less markedly forked.
A black bird glossed with green, having the chin, throat, and front and sides of the neck white.
The first is the Paradise pie (Astrapia nigra of Lesson), a bird of the size of Paradises rubra, but with a very long tail, glossed above with intense violet.
In its dark velvety plumage, glowed with bronze and purple, it resembles the Seleucides alba, but it bears a magnificent tail more than two feet long, glossed on the upper surface with the most intense opalescent blue.
The back and wings of this species are of an intense velvety black, faintly glossed in certain lights with rich purple.
Often enough this attitude is superseded by a more tender feeling, or rather let us say glossed over, but the hostile feeling appears regularly to have been the earlier.
The second test requires the sayings to be short and simple, and to be followed, in the present text, by carefully clausulated doublets, or to be themselves now glossed and expanded.
A white streak through and behind eye; crown glossy purplish brown; back olive-brown glossed with greenish.
It is of a black hue glossed with green, equalling a pigeon in size--its long tail adding to its apparent length.
The head and upper part of the body of the male bird are green, glossed with gold in some parts, and with bronze in others.
The tail is black, with a purple gloss; the throat is of a shining, metallic green; while the breast and under portion of the body is green, glossed with gold.
Slightly smaller than the last, and with the head of the male glossed purple instead of green.
The sanguinary conduct of the insurgents was dwelt upon; the successes obtained by the French armies were magnified; the losses which they had sustained were extenuated or glossed over.
But do you mean to tell me that such consummate geniuses, such unbiased glorious brains would have glossed over any idea, or under-considered any point in their schemes for the advancement of man?
Latin, many words of which were glossed in French.
Only those glossedpassages are binding which contain the latest rule of law.
Only the glossed parts and passages of Justinian's law collection have binding force in Germany.
The eggs are often very perceptibly glossed and there is frequently a haunting greenish or yellowish tinge which diffuses itself over the whole--an atmosphere, as the artist would say.
Five eggs are almost invariably the number laid, and they are of a pure white color, the shell being very little glossed and of a coarser grain than is the case with eggs of the other Swallows.
Adult female: Like male but somewhat duller below; ashy of head less pure, glossed with olivaceous and not so abruptly contrasting with yellow of throat; chestnut crown-patch less conspicuous or wanting.
This statement is found to have been glossed or paraphrased in an age when men knew no better.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "glossed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
