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a. & n. from Polish.
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a.
Capable of being polished.
a.
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
v. t.
To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish.
v. t.
Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.
n.
Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.
n.
One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing.
n.
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
v. t.
To deprive of polish; to make impolite.
n.
The quality of being polished.
imp. & p. p.
of Polish
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Polish
a.
Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.
n.
A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
v. i.
To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.
n.
An imitation of any veined and ornamental stone, as marble, formed by a substratum of finely ground gypsum mixed with glue, the surface of which, while soft, is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.
a.
Not rude; polished.
v. t.
To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
v. t.
To smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
n.
An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
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