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Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. "A rustic muse." Spenser.

Uncivilized; untaught; unpolished; rude; as, savage life; savage manners. What nation, since the commencement of the Christian era, ever rose from savage to civilized without Christianity E. D. Griffin.

is variegated with splinters of marble, spar, granite, etc., and subsequently colored and polished.

To be bright by reflection of light; to gleam; to be glossy; as, to shine like polished silver.

Having the surface smooth and polished; -- said of leaves, the surfaces of shells, etc.

A curved piece of polished horn, wood, or metal used to facilitate the entrance of the foot into a shoe.

., are sold by retail. From shop to shop Wandering, and littering with unfolded silks The polished counter. Cowper.

The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another.

fr. Smooth, v. Smoothing iron, an iron instrument with a polished face, for smoothing clothes; a sadiron; a flatiron. -- Smoothing plane, a short, finely set plane, for smoothing and finishing work.

A reflector of polished metal, especially one used in reflecting telescopes. See Speculum metal, below.

is reduced or drawn down to the degree required, as indicated by the color produced on a polished portion, or by the burning of oil. Tempering color, the shade of color that indicates the degree of temper in tempering steel, as pale straw yellow for lancets, razors, and tools for metal; dark straw yellow for penknives…

Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obs.] Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne.

A bright brown polished calfskin binding of books, stained with a conventional treelike design.

Not civil; not complaisant; discourteous; impolite; rude; unpolished; as, uncivil behavior.

Fig.; Not smoothed; unpolished; rough. My rhymes be rugged and unkempt. Spenser.

Not rude; polished. Herrick.

rtaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished. [Obs.] " The race of upland giants." Chapman. Upland moccasin. (Zoöl.) See Moccasin. -- Upland sandpiper, or Upland plover (Zoöl.), a large American sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda) much valued as a game bird. Unlike mo…

Rude; rustic; unpolished; uncivilized. [Obs.] His presence made the rudest peasant melt, That in the wild, uplandish country dwelt. Marlowe.

Having a brilliantly polished surface, as some leaves.

Milton. Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a vesture of plants. Bentley. There polished chests embroidered vestures graced. Pope.