Webster's 1828 Dictionary
POLISHING
ppr. Making smooth and glossy; refining.
POLISHING
n.Smoothness; glossiness; refinement.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
POLISHING
POLISHING Pol "ish *ing,
Defn: a. & n. from Polish. Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp. , a small smoothing iron used in laundries. -- Polishing slate. (a ) A gray or yellow slate, found in Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals. (b ) 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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