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Badly put together; inartificial; rude; unpolished; irregular. "Carol incondite rhymes." J. Philips.

Not elaborate; not wrought with care; unpolished; crude; unfinished.

Uncivil; unpolished; rude. M. Arnold. -- In`ur*bane"ly, adv. -- In`ur*bane"ness, n.

Want of urbanity or courtesy; unpolished manners or deportment; inurbaneness; rudeness. Bp. Hall.

To convert into, or make to resemble, jasper. Polished specimens of jasperized and agatized woods. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.

Having a smooth surface, as if polished.

of copper and zinc, used by braziers, and for drawing into wire. -- Roll latten, latten polished on both sides ready for use. -- Shaven latten, a thinner kind than black latten. -- White latten, a mixture of brass and tin.

Made smooth, as if polished.

A variety of black limestone, often polished for ornamental purposes.

A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance,…

A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas.

d; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.

A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light. And in her hand she held a mirror bright, Wherein her face she often viewèd fair. Spenser.

A genus of polished marine gastropod shells, chiefly tropical, and often beautifully colored.

ney, or wampum, of the Atlantic coast of the United States; -- originally applied only to polished white cylindrical beads.

A North American tree (Nyssa multiflora) with very tough wood, handsome oval polished leaves, and very acid berries, -- the sour gum, or common tupelo. See Tupelo. [Written also piperidge and pipperidge.] Pepperidge bush (Bot.), the barberry.

Pointed; sharp. "Picked and polished." Chapman. Let the stake be made picked at the top. Mortimer.

Capable of being polished.

The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. [R.]