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Polish :: Polish (v. t.) Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite; as, to polish life or manners..

Gentility :: Gentility (n.) The quality or qualities appropriate to those who are well born, as self-respect, dignity, courage, courtesy, politeness of manner, a graceful and easy mien and behavior, etc.; good breeding..

Humanity :: Humanity (n.) Mental cultivation; liberal education; instruction in classical and polite literature.

Trouble :: Trouble (v. t.) To give occasion for labor to; -- used in polite phraseology; as, I will not trouble you to deliver the letter..

Belles-lettres :: Belles-lettres (n. pl.) Polite or elegant literature; the humanities; -- used somewhat vaguely for literary works in which imagination and taste are predominant.

Mannered :: Mannered (a.) Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self..

Civillty :: Civillty (n.) Courtesy; politeness; kind attention; good breeding; a polite act or expression.

Dipyre :: Dipyre (n.) A mineral of the scapolite group; -- so called from the double effect of fire upon it, in fusing it, and rendering it phosphorescent..

Humanistic :: Humanistic (a.) Pertaining to polite kiterature.

Polished :: Polished (a.) Made smooth and glossy, as by friction; hence, highly finished; refined; polite; as, polished plate; polished manners; polished verse..

Genteel :: Genteel (a.) Possessing or exhibiting the qualities popularly regarded as belonging to high birth and breeding; free from vulgarity, or lowness of taste or behavior; adapted to a refined or cultivated taste; polite; well-bred; as, genteel company, manners, address..

Breeding :: Breeding (n.) Deportment or behavior in the external offices and decorums of social life; manners; knowledge of, or training in, the ceremonies, or polite observances of society..

Humanism :: Humanism (n.) The study of the humanities; polite learning.

Cosmopolite :: Cosmopolite (a.) Common everywhere; widely spread; found in all parts of the world.

Cosmopolite :: Cosmopolite (a. & n.) See Cosmopolitan.

Ill-bred :: Ill-bred (a.) Badly educated or brought up; impolite; incivil; rude. See Note under Ill, adv..

Metropolite :: Metropolite (n.) A metropolitan.

Courteous :: Courteous (a.) Of courtlike manners; pertaining to, or expressive of, courtesy; characterized by courtesy; civil; obliging; well bred; polite; affable; complaisant..

Gallantry :: Gallantry (n.) Civility or polite attention to ladies; in a bad sense, attention or courtesy designed to win criminal favors from a female; freedom of principle or practice with respect to female virtue; intrigue..

Scapolite :: Scapolite (n.) A grayish white mineral occuring in tetragonal crystals and in cleavable masses. It is essentially a silicate of alumina and soda.

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