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Making no difference; indiscriminative; impartial; as, indistinguishing liberalities. [Obs.] Johnson.

Amorously pensive; as, languishing eyes, or look.

In a languishing manner.

The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance.

The state or condition of being marshy.

The light of the moon.

A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night. [Cant, U.S.]

Illicit distilling. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

Moonlight. [Colloq.] I went to see them in a moonshiny night. Addison.

Promoting growth; nutritious,

Nutritively; cherishingly.

To shine forth. "Bright, outshining beams." Shak.

Excess; exaggeration. [Obs.]

To shine over or upon; to illumine. Shak.

a. & vb. n. from Planish, v. t. Planishing rolls (Coining), rolls between which metal strips are passed while cold, to bring them to exactly the required thickness.

The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc.

Household furniture; stock. [Scot.]

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 clean…

Pressing forward in business; enterprising; driving; energetic; also, forward; officious, intrusive. -- Push"ing*ly, adv.

Rapturous; transporting.