polIshable

[Eng. polish; -able.] Capable of being polished; susceptible of a polish. (Boyle: Works, iii. 548.) põl-ished, pa. par. or a. [POLISH, v.] 1. Ord . Lang .: (See the verb.) 2. Botany : Having the appearance of a polished substance, as the testa of Abrus pre cat or i us , and many other seeds. polished-brick, subst . A brick which has been rubbed upon a bench plated with iron, to make its surface perfectly even. This proce is only gone †pol-Ish-ment, s. [Eng. polish ; -ment.] The act of polishing; the state of being polished; refine ment. "It is strange to see what a polishment so base a stuff doth take." - Wotton : Remains , p. 465. po-lis-teş, s . [Gr. polistes the founder of a city.] Entom.: A genus of Vespide. Polistes gallica is common in Germany, France, and the south of Europe. po-lite', a. [Lat. politus, pa. par. of polio =to polish; Fr. pol i; Ital. polito; Sp. puli do.] *I. Lit .: Polished; smooth and glo y; reflecting. " Polite bodies as looking-gla es."- Cudworth: Intellectual System , p. 731. II. Figuratively : 1. Polished or refined in manners or behavior; courteous, obliging, complaisant, well-bred, courtly. "Too polite and good natured to expre what he must have felt."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xvi. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; *3. Pertaining to the drawing up or making of laws and regulations for government; legislative. 4. Prudent and sagacious in the adoption of a measures tending to promote the public welfare; policy; sagacious in devising and carrying out as, a politic minister. 5. Characterized by prudence and sagacity; adapted or tending to promote the public welfare. 6. Sagacious, sharp, or clever in devising and carrying out measures to promote one's own interests without regard to the morality of the measures adopted or the object aimed at; crafty, artful, cunning. "I have been politick with my friend, smooth with mine enemy."-Shakesp.: As You Like It, v. 4. 7. Well-devised or adapted to secure an end or object, right or wrong; artful, specious. "Thy politic maxims."- Milton : P. R. , iii. 400. *B. As subst.: A politician.