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BURN'ISH, v.t. To polish by friction; to make smooth, bright and glossy; as, to burnish steel.
BURN'ISH, v.i. To grow bright or glossy.
BURN'ISH, n. Gloss; brightness; luster.
To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to
polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth;
as, to burnish brass or paper.
The frame of burnished steel, that east a glare Now the village windows blaze, Burnishing machine, a machine for smoothing and polishing by compression, as in making paper collars. To shine forth; to
brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out;
hence, to grow large.
A slender poet must have time to grow, My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell. The effect of burnishing;
gloss; brightness; luster.
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