Refinement; cleanliness in performance or presentation.
Cleanliness; smoothness, shininess.
A substance used to polish.
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.
A critical revision of a text.
A family of manuscripts which share similar traits; the variety of a language which is used in such manuscripts.
A census, an enumeration, a review, a survey.
A text established by critical revision.