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To form in its first rudiments, without revision, correction, or polish. Dryden.

Hewn coarsely without smoothing; unfinished; not polished.

Full and smoothly expanded; not defective or abrupt; finished; polished; -- said of style, or of authors with reference to their style. [Obs.] In his satires Horace is quick, round, and pleasant. Peacham.

To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; -- often with up or over; as, to rub up silver. The whole business of our redemption is to rub over the defaced copy of the creation. South.

An instrument or thing used in rubbing, polishing, or cleaning.

Characterized by roughness; umpolished; raw; lacking delicacy or refinement; coarse. Such gardening tools as art, yet rude, . . . had formed. Milton.

; to go to ruin; to become decayed or dilapidated; to perish. [R.] Though he his house of polished marble build, Yet shall it ruin like the moth's frail cell. Sandys. If we are idle, and disturb the industrious in their business, we shall ruin the faster. Locke.

A movable slab or rubber used in grinding or polishing a surface of stone.

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

Paper covered on one side with sand glued fast, -- used for smoothing and polishing.

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.

One who polishes shoes.

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.

hite metallic element, sonorous, ductile, very malleable, and capable of a high degree of polish. It is found native, and also combined with sulphur, arsenic, antimony, chlorine, etc., in the minerals argentite, proustite, pyrargyrite, ceragyrite, etc. Silver is one of the "noble" metals, so-called, not being easily ox…

The iron lap used by diamond polishers in finishing the facets of the gem.

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.