Definition of polish

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Polish (n.) Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.

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Waterworn :: Waterworn (a.) Worn, smoothed, or polished by the action of water; as, waterworn stones..
Polish :: Polish (n.) Anything used to produce a gloss.
Runner :: Runner (n.) A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding..
Mazurka :: Mazurka (n.) A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat..
Roughcast :: Roughcast (v. t.) To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish..
Inurbanity :: Inurbanity (n.) Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness.
Levigate :: Levigate (v. t.) To polish.
Repolish :: Repolish (v. t.) To polish again.
Colcothar :: Colcothar (n.) Polishing rouge; a reddish brown oxide of iron, used in polishing glass, and also as a pigment; -- called also crocus Martis..
Speculum :: Speculum (n.) A reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. See Speculum metal, below..
Cadrans :: Cadrans (n.) An instrument with a graduated disk by means of which the angles of gems are measured in the process of cutting and polishing.
Lap :: Lap (n.) A piece of brass, lead, or other soft metal, used to hold a cutting or polishing powder in cutting glass, gems, and the like, or in polishing cutlery, etc. It is usually in the form of wheel or disk, which revolves on a vertical axis..
Rouge :: Rouge (n.) A red amorphous powder consisting of ferric oxide. It is used in polishing glass, metal, or gems, and as a cosmetic, etc. Called also crocus, jeweler's rouge, etc..
Buffer :: Buffer (n.) One who polishes with a buff.
Refine :: Refine (v. t.) To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings..
Bare :: Bare (a.) Plain; simple; unadorned; without polish; bald; meager.
Wharp :: Wharp (n.) A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder..
Inurbane :: Inurbane (a.) Uncivil; unpolished; rude.
Polished :: Polished (a.) Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse..
Blacklead :: Blacklead (v. t.) To coat or to polish with black lead.
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