Word Meanings - BURNISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.

• Causeuse
  A kind of sofa for two persons. A tete-/-tete.
• Polishment
  The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
• Smoothed
  of Smooth
• CAUSERIE
  Informal talk or discussion, as about literary matters; light conversation; chat.
• Brighten
  To make bright or brighter; to make to shine; to increase the luster of; to give a brighter hue to.
• Causeway
  Alt. of Causey
• Smoothing
  of Smooth
• CAUSEWAYCAUSEY
  A way or road rasid above the natural level of the ground, serving as a dry passage over wet or marshy ground. But that broad causeway will direct your way. Dryden. The other way Satan went down The causey to Hell-gate. Milton.
• Bright-harnessed
  Having glittering armor.
• Brightly
  Brilliantly; splendidly; with luster; as, brightly shining armor.
• Rubbing
  of Rub
• Smoothbore
  Having a bore of perfectly smooth surface; -- distinguished from rifled.
• CAUSEWAYEDCAUSEYED
  Having a raised way (causeway or causey); paved. Sir W. Scott. C. Bronté.
• Brasses
  of Brass
• Brightness
  The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.
• Causewayed
  Alt. of Causeyed
• Rubbage
  Rubbish.
• Smooth-chinned
  Having a smooth chin; beardless.

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