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Word Meanings - DEPOLISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To remove the polish or glaze from.

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  • POLISHMENT
    The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
  • POLISHED
    Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
  • POLISHABLE
    Capable of being polished.
  • REMOVER
    One who removes; as, a remover of landmarks. Bacon.
  • POLISHEDNESS
    The quality of being polished.
  • REMOVED
    1. Changed in place. 2. Dismissed from office. 3. Distant in location; remote. "Something finer than you could purchase in so removed a dwelling." Shak. 4. Distant by degrees in relationship; as, a cousin once removed. -- Re*mov"ed*ness (r, n.
  • REMOVE
    1. To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building. Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor's landmark. Deut. xix. 14. When we had dined, to prevent the ladies' leaving us, I generally ordered
  • POLISH
    Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
  • GLAZE
    To apply thinly a transparent or semitransparent color to , to modify the effect. (more info) 1. To furnish with glass. Two cabinets daintily paved, richly handed, and glazed with crystalline glass. Bacon. 2. To incrust, cover, or overlay with
  • POLISHER
    One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing. Addison.
  • 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
  • GLAZEN
    Resembling glass; glasslike; glazed. Wyclif.
  • GLAZER
    1. One who applies glazing, as in pottery manufacture, etc.; one who gives a glasslike or glossy surface to anything; a calenderer or smoother of cloth, paper, and the like. 2. A tool or machine used in glazing, polishing, smoothing, etc.; amoung
  • REPOLISH
    To polish again.
  • DEPOLISHING
    The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
  • DEGLAZE
    To remove the glaze from, as pottery or porcelain, so as to give a dull finish.
  • DEPOLISH
    To remove the polish or glaze from.
  • OVERPOLISH
    To polish too much.
  • EXPOLISH
    To polish thoroughly. Heywood.
  • UNPOLISH
    To deprive of polish; to make impolite.
  • OVERGLAZE
    Applied over the glaze; -- said of enamel paintings, which sometimes are seen to project from the surface of the ware. Suitable for applying upon the glaze; -- said of vitrifiable colors used in ceramic decoration.

 

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