Definition of refine

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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..

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Test :: Test (v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation..
Defecate :: Defecate (v. t.) To clear from impurities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine..
Defecate :: Defecate (a.) Freed from anything that can pollute, as dregs, lees, etc.; refined; purified..
Elaboration :: Elaboration (n.) The act or process of producing or refining with labor; improvement by successive operations; refinement.
Subtilize :: Subtilize (v. t.) To refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments..
Overrefinement :: Overrefinement (n.) Excessive refinement.
Muscovado :: Muscovado (n.) Unrefined or raw sugar.
Refineries :: Refineries (pl. ) of Refiner.
Indelicacy :: Indelicacy (n.) The quality of being indelicate; want of delicacy, or of a nice sense of, or regard for, purity, propriety, or refinement in manners, language, etc.; rudeness; coarseness; also, that which is offensive to refined taste or purity of mind..
Departer :: Departer (n.) One who refines metals by separation.
Inelegant :: Inelegant (a.) Not elegant; deficient in beauty, polish, refinement, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires..
Exalt :: Exalt (v. t.) To render pure or refined; to intensify or concentrate; as, to exalt the juices of bodies..
Country :: Country (a.) Destitute of refinement; rude; unpolished; rustic; not urbane; as, country manners..
Rectificator :: Rectificator (n.) That which rectifies or refines; esp., a part of a distilling apparatus in which the more volatile portions are separated from the less volatile by the process of evaporation and condensation; a rectifier..
Vulgarity :: Vulgarity (n.) Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.
Delicate :: Delicate (a.) Pleasing to the senses; refinedly agreeable; hence, adapted to please a nice or cultivated taste; nice; fine; elegant; as, a delicate dish; delicate flavor..
Tenuity :: Tenuity (n.) Refinement; delicacy.
Refine :: Refine (v. t.) To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar..
Refinery :: Refinery (n.) The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar..
Titler :: Titler (n.) A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
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