Polish: alternatives and connections

To make better; to improve; to meliorate.

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To change or modify in any way for the better

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To make or render beautiful; to add beauty to; to adorn; to deck; to grace; to embellish.

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Having good qualities in a greater degree than another; as, a better man; a better physician; a better house; a better air.

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The state of being effulgent; extreme brilliancy; a flood of light; great luster or brightness; splendor.

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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The act, process, or result of formulating or reducing to a formula.

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To pine; to lament; to long.

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To disprove or make void; to refute.

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To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.

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Brought to consummation or completeness; completed; not defective nor redundant; having all the properties or qualities requisite to its nature and k…

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The quality or state of being perfect or complete, so that nothing requisite is wanting; entire development; consummate culture, skill, or moral exce…

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The act of preparing or fitting beforehand for a particular purpose, use, service, or condition; previous arrangement or adaptation; a making ready;…

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Alt. of Radiancy

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The quality of being radiant; brilliancy; effulgence; vivid brightness; as, the radiance of the sun.

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Alt. of Refulgency

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The quality of being refulgent; brilliancy; splender; radiance.

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To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by…

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Slavonic.

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Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants.

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Quality or state of being smooth.

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of Black

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To become glazed of glassy.

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A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed i…

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To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or p…

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To reclaim from a savage state; to instruct in the rules and customs of civilization; to educate; to refine.

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To bestow attention, care, and labor upon, with a view to valuable returns; to till; to fertilize; as, to cultivate soil.

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To bring /// or guide the powers of, as a child; to develop and cultivate, whether physically, mentally, or morally, but more commonly limited to the…

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To rub or scour to brightness; to clean; to burnish; as, to furbish a sword or spear.

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Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

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To refine too much.

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A shoal; a multitude; as, a school of fish.

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Having an even, smooth surface; smooth; hence, glossy; as, sleek hair.

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See Schlich.

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To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or p…

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To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or p…

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One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing.

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One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing.

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of Shine

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of Shine

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To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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To draw along; to trail; to drag.

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To subject (a body) to the action of something moving over its surface with pressure and friction, especially to the action of something moving back…

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To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or p…

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The art or act of cultivating; improvement for agricultural purposes or by agricultural processes; tillage; production by tillage.

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The act or practice of cultivating, or of preparing the earth for seed and raising crops by tillage; as, the culture of the soil.

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Fine, soft, hairy outgrowth from the skin or surface of animals or plants, not matted and fleecy like wool

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To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.

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Brightness or luster of a body proceeding from a smooth surface; polish; as, the gloss of silk; cloth is calendered to give it a gloss.

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The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface.

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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…

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The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas.

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To whisper.

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To emit rays of light; to give light; to beam with steady radiance; to exhibit brightness or splendor; as, the sun shines by day; the moon shines by…

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Having an even surface, or a surface so even that no roughness or points can be perceived by the touch; not rough; as, smooth glass; smooth porcelain.

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To make smooth.

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