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n.
A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
n.
The quality or state of being urbane; civility or courtesy of manners; politeness; refinement.
superl.
Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse.
v. t.
To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.
n.
The exact state or quality of texture and consistency of well reduced and refined copper.
n.
That which is refined, elaborated, or polished to excess; an affected subtilty; as, refinements of logic.
n.
One who, or that which, refines.
v. t.
To render urban, or urbane; to refine; to polish.
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.
n.
Grossness or clownishness of manners of language; absence of refinement; coarseness.
a.
Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.
pl.
of Refinery
a.
Courteous in manners; polite; refined; elegant.
n.
The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.
v. t.
Refined; select; excellent; choice.
imp. & p. p.
of 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.
n.
Hence, figuratively, lacking refinement, gentleness, or polish.
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.
n.
A large truncated cone of refined sugar.
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