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Inelegancy :: Inelegancy (n.) The quality of being inelegant; want of elegance or grace; want of refinement, beauty, or polish in language, composition, or manners..

Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) Nice and refined perception and discrimination; critical niceness; fastidious accuracy.

Taste :: Taste (n.) Manner, with respect to what is pleasing, refined, or in accordance with good usage; style; as, music composed in good taste; an epitaph in bad taste..

Cultivation :: Cultivation (n.) The state of being cultivated; advancement in physical, intellectual, or moral condition; refinement; culture..

Subtilizer :: Subtilize (v. i.) To refine in argument; to make very nice distinctions.

Vulgar :: Vulgar (a.) Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners..

Urbanize :: Urbanize (v. t.) To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish..

Conserve :: Conserve (n.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.

Test :: Test (n.) A cupel or cupelling hearth in which precious metals are melted for trial and refinement.

Vulgarity :: Vulgarity (n.) Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.

Recherche :: Recherche (a.) Sought out with care; choice. Hence: of rare quality, elegance, or attractiveness; peculiar and refined in kind..

Polite :: Polite (v. t.) To polish; to refine; to render polite.

Subtilize :: Subtilize (v. t.) To refine; to spin into niceties; as, to subtilize arguments..

Affine :: Affine (v. t.) To refine.

Delicacy :: Delicacy (a.) Nice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action..

Invulgar :: Invulgar (a.) Not vulgar; refined; elegant.

Spiritous :: Spiritous (a.) Like spirit; refined; defecated; pure.

Petroleum :: Petroleum (n.) Rock oil, mineral oil, or natural oil, a dark brown or greenish inflammable liquid, which, at certain points, exists in the upper strata of the earth, from whence it is pumped, or forced by pressure of the gas attending it. It consists of a complex mixture of various hydrocarbons, largely of the methane series, but may vary much in appearance, composition, and properties. It is refined by distillation, and the products include kerosene, benzine, gasoline, paraffin, etc..

Muscovado :: Muscovado (a.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, unrefined or raw sugar, obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses. Muscovado sugar contains impurities which render it dark colored and moist..

Cassonade :: Cassonade (n.) Raw sugar; sugar not refined.

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