He slapped the magazine on a freshly polished end table and stood.

He didn't have that look of money or polished charm.

Once the floors had been waxed and the furniture polished, the house sparkled - in an empty kind of way.

In 1826 he described the prismatically-coloured films of metal, known as Nobili's' rings, deposited electrolytically from solutions of lead and other salts when the anode is a polished iron plate and the cathode is a fine wire placed vertically above it.

Thus in Lithospermum the nutlets are hard like a stone, in Myosotis usually polished, in Cynoglossum covered with bristles, &c.