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.