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a. & n. from Polish.
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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 deprive of polish; to make impolite.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Polish
n.
The act of polishing, or the state 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 smooth or polish with sandpaper; as, to sandpaper a door.
n.
One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing.
n.
Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.
a.
Not rude; polished.
v. i.
To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.
imp. & p. p.
of Polish
v. t.
To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish.
n.
The quality of being polished.
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.
a.
Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.
a.
Capable of being polished.
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.
n.
An earthy substance originally brought from Tripoli, used in polishing stones and metals. It consists almost wholly of the siliceous shells of diatoms.
n.
A tool on which lenses are fastened in a group, for polishing or grinding.
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