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- English Word Policy Definition A ticket or warrant for money in the public funds.
- English Word Policy Definition The writing or instrument in which a contract of insurance is embodied; an instrument in writing containing the terms and conditions on which one party engages to indemnify another against loss arising from certain hazards, perils, or risks to which his person or property may be exposed. See Insurance.
- English Word Policy Definition A method of gambling by betting as to what numbers will be drawn in a lottery; as, to play policy.
- English Word Policying Definition of Policy
- English Word Poling Definition of Pole
- English Word Poling Definition The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.
- English Word Poling Definition The operation of dispersing worm casts over the walks with poles.
- English Word Poling Definition One of the poles or planks used in upholding the side earth in excavating a tunnel, ditch, etc.
- English Word Polish Definition Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants.
- English Word Polish Definition The language of the Poles.
- English Word Polish Definition To make smooth and glossy, usually by friction; to burnish; to overspread with luster; as, to polish glass, marble, metals, etc.
- English Word Polish Definition Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners.
- English Word Polish Definition To become smooth, as from friction; to receive a gloss; to take a smooth and glossy surface; as, steel polishes well.
- English Word Polish Definition A smooth, glossy surface, usually produced by friction; a gloss or luster.
- English Word Polish Definition Anything used to produce a gloss.
- English Word Polish Definition Fig.: Refinement; elegance of manners.
- English Word Polishable Definition Capable of being polished.
- English Word Polished Definition of Polish
- English Word Polished Definition Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse.
- English Word Polishedness Definition The quality of being polished.
- English Word Polisher Definition One who, or that which, polishes; also, that which is used in polishing.
- English Word Polishing Definition of Polish
- English Word Polishing Definition a. & n. from Polish.
- English Word Polishment Definition The act of polishing, or the state of being polished.
- English Word Polite Definition Smooth; polished.
- English Word Polite Definition Smooth and refined in behavior or manners; well bred; courteous; complaisant; obliging; civil.
- English Word Polite Definition Characterized by refinement, or a high degree of finish; as, polite literature.
- English Word Polite Definition To polish; to refine; to render polite.
- English Word Politely Definition In a polished manner; so as to be smooth or glossy.
- English Word Politely Definition In a polite manner; with politeness.