Word Meanings - BURNISHER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who burnishes. 2. A tool with a hard, smooth, rounded end or surface, as of steel, ivory, or agate, used in smoothing or polishing by rubbing. It has a variety of forms adapted to special uses.
Related words: (words related to BURNISHER)
- SMOOTHEN
To make smooth. - STEELING
The process of pointing, edging, or overlaying with steel; specifically, acierage. See Steel, v. - ROUNDWORM
A nematoid worm. - STEELHEAD
A North Pacific salmon found from Northern California to Siberia; -- called also hardhead, and preesil. - RUBBLEWORK
Masonry constructed of unsquared stones that are irregular in size and shape. - SMOOTHNESS
Quality or state of being smooth. - STEELINESS
The quality of being steely. - ROUNDISH
Somewhat round; as, a roundish seed; a roundish figure. -- Round"ish*ness, n. - SURFACE LOADING
The weight supported per square unit of surface; the quotient obtained by dividing the gross weight, in pounds, of a fully loaded flying machine, by the total area, in square feet, of its supporting surface. - ADAPTABLE
Capable of being adapted. - ROUNDABOUTNESS
The quality of being roundabout; circuitousness. - ROUNDFISH
Any ordinary market fish, exclusive of flounders, sole, halibut, and other flatfishes. A lake whitefish , less compressed than the common species. It is very abundant in British America and Alaska. - POLISHMENT
The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. - ROUND-UP
The act of collecting or gathering together scattered cattle by riding around them and driving them in. - VARIETY SHOW
A stage entertainment of successive separate performances, usually songs, dances, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketches, exhibitions of trained animals, or any specialties. Often loosely called vaudeville show. - RUBBIDGE
Rubbish. Bp. Hall. - SMOOTH-CHINNED
Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton. - ROUNDSMAN
A patrolman; also, a policeman who acts as an inspector over the rounds of the patrolmen. - SMOOTHLY
In a smooth manner. - POLISHED
Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse. - CARBON STEEL
Steel deriving its qualities from carbon chiefly, without the presence of other alloying elements; --opposed to alloy steel. - MISGROUND
To found erroneously. "Misgrounded conceit." Bp. Hall. - UNSTEEL
To disarm; to soften. Richardson. - GROUNDWORK
That which forms the foundation or support of anything; the basis; the essential or fundamental part; first principle. Dryden. - UNDERGROUND INSURANCE
Wildcat insurance. - GAGATE
Agate. Fuller. - PLAYGROUND
A piece of ground used for recreation; as, the playground of a school. - LOW STEEL
See LOW - GROUNDEN
p. p. of Grind. Chaucer. - NICKEL STEEL
A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used for armor plate, bicycle tubing, propeller shafts, etc.