Refine

re-fin', v. [-fined (-find'), -fining.] To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure stat»; to free from impurities. (Metal.) To reduce (metals) from the ore: to separate from other metals or from dro . To purify from what is gro , coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, etc. — v. To become pure, be cleared of feculent matter; to improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence of any kind: to affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language. [Fr. reand but in imit. of F. raffiner, to refine, reand to refine, fr. L. ad, to, and T.fln = E.flne.] — Refin'edly, -edit, adv. In a refined manner also, with affected nicety or elegance.— Refin'edne , «.— Renne'ment, sun, cube, full moon, fd cow, oil REFRACT n. Act of, or state of being, etc.: high cultivation; culture; elegance; over-nicety; affected subtilty. Refin'er, n.— Refin'ery, -5r-T, n. The place and. apparatus for refining metals, sugar, etc.