To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
To play (a card) as a finesse.
To obtain something from someone through trickery or manipulation.
To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem.
To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
An adroit manoeuvre.
The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.
In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over.
Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.
To refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite.
To apply shoe polish to shoes.
To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface.
To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
To refine; remove imperfections from.
Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
A substance used to polish.