A substance containing chemical agents or abrasive particles and applied to smooth or shine a surface, Elegance of style or manners; refinement, Smoothness; regularity; elegance; refinement; especially, elegance of style or manners, intransitive verb_ To make smooth and shiny by rubbing or chemical action, To refine or remove flaws from; perfect or complete, To become smooth or shiny by being rubbed, transitive verb_ Hence, to refine; to wear off the rudeness, coarseness, or rusticity of; to make elegant and polite, To refine; remove imperfections from, To apply shoe polish to shoes, adjective_ Of or pertaining to Poland or its inhabitants