Word Meanings - HIGH-BRED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Bred in high life; of pure blood. Byron.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of HIGH-BRED)

• Courtly
• Dignified
• polished
• refined
• aristocratic
• high-bred
• mannerly

Related words: (words related to HIGH-BRED)

• POLISHMENT
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• REFINED
  Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments. Refined wits who honored poesy with their pens. Peacham. -- Re*fin"ed*ly (r, adv. -- Re*fin"ed*ness, n.
• POLISHED
  Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
• DIGNIFIED
  Marked with dignity; stately; as, a dignified judge.
• POLISHABLE
  Capable of being polished.
• DIGNIFICATION
  The act of dignifying; exaltation.
• REFINEMENT
  1. The act of refining, or the state of being refined; as, the refinement or metals; refinement of ideas. The more bodies are of kin to spirit in subtilty and refinement, the more diffusive are they. Norris. From the civil war to this time, I doubt
• REFIND
  To find again; to get or experience again. Sandys.
• REFINER
  One who, or that which, refines.
• POLISHEDNESS
  The quality of being polished.
• HIGH-BRED
  Bred in high life; of pure blood. Byron.
• REFINE
  1. To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. I will bring
• POLISH
  Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n.
• 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
• ARISTOCRATIC; ARISTOCRATICAL
  1. Of or pertaining to an aristocracy; consisting in, or favoring, a government of nobles, or principal men; as, an aristocratic constitution. 2. Partaking of aristocracy; befitting aristocracy; characteristic of, or originating with,
• REFINERY
  1. The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar. 2. A furnace in which cast iron is refined by the action of a blast on the molten metal.
• MANNERLY
  Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak.
• COURTLY
  1. Relating or belonging to a court. 2. Elegant; polite; courtlike; flattering. In courtly company or at my beads. Shak. 3. Disposed to favor the great; favoring the policy or party of the court; obsequious. Macualay.
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.
• REPOLISH
  To polish again.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• PREFINITE
  Prearranged. " Set and prefinite time." Holland.
• DEPOLISHING
  The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelian. Knight.
• DEPOLISH
  To remove the polish or glaze from.
• OVERPOLISH
  To polish too much.
• EXPOLISH
  To polish thoroughly. Heywood.
• OVERREFINE
  To refine too much.