To shine; to make a surface very smooth or shiny by rubbing, cleaning, or grinding.
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 refine; remove imperfections from.
Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
A substance used to polish.
To colour (a metal or wooden surface) with a gilding product containing saffron.
To add saffron to (a food), for taste, colour etc.
To dye (a fabric, garment, etc.) with a saffron-based dye.
To give a saffron colour to (something).
To embellish.
Having an orange-yellow colour.
An orange-yellow colour, the colour of a lion's pelt.
A spice (seasoning) and colouring agent made from the stigma and part of the style of the plant, sometimes or formerly also used as a dye and insect repellent.
The plant Crocus sativus, a crocus.