Word Meanings - POLISHING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. A kind of hone

Additional info about word: POLISHING

a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. -- Polishing snake, a tool used in cleaning lithographic stones. -- Polishing wheel, a wheel or disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a surface.

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• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• YELLOW-GOLDS
  A certain plant, probably the yellow oxeye. B. Jonson.
• YELLOWTOP
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• YELLOWFISH
  A rock trout found on the coast of Alaska; -- called also striped fish, and Atka mackerel.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• GLASSEN
  Glassy; glazed. And pursues the dice with glassen eyes. B. Jonson.
• SMOOTH
  1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16.
• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• SMALLISH
  Somewhat small. G. W. Cable.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• GLASSINESS
  The quality of being glassy.
• GLASSWORT
  A seashore plant of the Spinach family , with succulent jointed stems; also, a prickly plant of the same family , both formerly burned for the sake of the ashes, which yield soda for making glass and soap.
• GLASS-ROPE
  A remarkable vitreous sponge, of the genus Hyalonema, first brought from Japan. It has a long stem, consisting of a bundle of long and large, glassy, siliceous fibers, twisted together.
• YELLOW
  1. A bright golden color, reflecting more light than any other except white; the color of that part of the spectrum which is between the orange and green. "A long motley coat guarded with yellow." Shak. 2. A yellow pigment. Cadmium yellow, Chrome
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• GLASSILY
  So as to resemble glass.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• SLATER
  One who lays slates, or whose occupation is to slate buildings.
• DISMALLY
  In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
• SPYGLASS
  A small telescope for viewing distant terrestrial objects.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• MISTRANSLATE
  To translate erroneously.
• PETWORTH MARBLE
  A kind of shell marble occurring in the Wealden clay at Petworth, in Sussex, England; -- called also Sussex marble.