*polis*

n. 1. a city in Northwest Turkey; a Thracian town that was rebuilt and renamed by the Roman emperor Hadrian.
Syn. -- Edirne, Adrianople [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The trade or business of selling books. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Bibliopole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to bibliopolism. Dibdin. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To remove the polish or glaze from. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Ceramics) The process of removing the vitreous glaze from porcelain, leaving the dull luster of the surface of ivory porcelain. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; a surface; 'epi` + pe`lein to be. ] (Opt.) See Fluorescence. [ R. ] Sir J. Herschel. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. L. expolire. See Polish. ] To polish thoroughly. [ Obs. ] Heywood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. megalo`polis; me`gas, mega`lh, great + po`lis city. ] 1. A chief city; a very large cuity; a metropolis. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A region in which the suburbs of several large cities merge to form one large predominantly urbanized area. [ PJC ]

n. [ NL., fr. Gr. me`gas great + po`lis city. ] A metropolis. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. metropolis, Gr. &unr_;, prop., the mother city (in relation to colonies); &unr_; mother + &unr_; city. See Mother, and Police. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ Edinburgh ] gray metropolis of the North. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary. [ 1913 Webster ]

The great metropolis and see of Rome. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Any large city. [ PJC ]

n. One who monopolizes; one who has a monopoly; one who favors monopoly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a monopolist. North Am. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. myropw`lhs; my`ron unguent + pwlei^n to sell. ] One who sells unguents or perfumery. [ Obs. ] Jonhson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Necropolises [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_;; nekro`s a dead body, adj., dead + &unr_; city. ] A city of the dead; a name given by the ancients to their cemeteries, and sometimes applied to modern burial places; a graveyard. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To polish too much. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. pharmacopola, Gr. farmakopw`lhs; fa`rmakon medicine + pwlei^n to sell. ] One who sells medicines; an apothecary. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Pole a Polander. ] Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants. -- n. The language of the Poles. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Polished p. pr. & vb. n. Polishing. ] [ F. polir, L. polire. Cf. Polite, -ish ] 1. To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

To polish off, to finish completely, as an adversary. [ Slang ] W. H. Russell. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster. [ 1913 Webster ]

Another prism of clearer glass and better polish. Sir I. Newton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything used to produce a gloss. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners. [ 1913 Webster ]

This Roman polish and this smooth behavior. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being polished. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being polished. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Polish. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of polishing, or the state of being polished. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] 1. A polishing or grinding implement or instrument. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. (Glass Making) A tool consisting of a flat wooden block with a long iron handle, used for flattening out split cylinders of blown glass. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ L., fr. Gr. &unr_;; &unr_; before + &unr_; city. ] Same as Bee glue, under Bee. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To polish again. [ 1913 Webster ]