This Roman polish and this smooth behavior.
Addison.
Pol"ish*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being polished.
Pol"ished (?), a. Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly
finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners;
polished verse.
Pol"ished*ness, n. The quality of being polished.
Pol"ish*er (?), n. One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which
is used in polishing. Addison.
Pol"ish*ing, a. & n. from Polish.
Polishing iron, an iron burnisher; esp., a small smoothing iron used in
laundries. -- Polishing slate. (a) A gray or yellow slate, found in
Bohemia and Auvergne, and used for polishing glass, marble, and metals.
(b) A kind of hone or whetstone; hone slate. -- Polishing snake, a tool
used in cleaning lithographic stones. -- Polishing wheel, a wheel or
disk coated with, or composed of, abrading material, for polishing a
surface.
Pol"ish*ment (?), n. The act of polishing, or the state of being
polished. [R.]
Po*lite" (?), a. [Compar. Politer (?); superl. Politest.] [L. politus,
p. p. of polire to polish: cf. F. poli. See Polish, v.] 1. Smooth;
polished. [Obs.]
Rays of light falling on a polite surface.
Sir I. Newton.
2. Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous;
complaisant; obliging; civil.
He marries, bows at court, and grows polite.
Pope.
3. Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish; as, polite
literature. Macaulay.
Syn. -- Polished; refined; well bred; courteous; affable; urbane;
civil; courtly; elegant; genteel.
Po*lite", v. t. To polish; to refine; to render polite. [Obs.] Ray.
Po*lite"ly (?), adv. 1. In a polished manner; so as to be smooth or
glossy. [Obs.] Milton.