Made smooth (and usually glossy) by friction. Also figurative.

= dainty, adj.

Of language, the arts, or other intellectual pursuits: refined, elegant, scholarly; exhibiting good or restrained taste.

Refined in quality or nature; sophisticated, subtle.

Of things: Having the state, elegance, or refinement befitting a court; elegant, refined.

Of a thing: highly-developed, advanced, sophisticated; refined. Now rare.

After the style or manner of the Court; courtly, elegant, polite.

Highly purified. Also: very elegant or cultivated.

Refined, cultured; associated with polite society.

Thoroughly or highly polished; = perpolished, adj. Chiefly figurative.

Scottish. Polished, refined, cultured. Obsolete. rare.

Refined, delicate.

figurative. Polite, polished, refined, cultured: esp. in reference to language. Obsolete (passing into 3).

Refined; spec. designating a type of fine broadcloth.

Polished; not crude or vulgar. Free from rudeness or vulgarity; devoid of crude, rough, or uncouth elements; that befits a person of refinement.

Of an action, feeling, pursuit, etc.: befitting a person of refinement and cultivated taste; refined. Cf. elegant arts n. at compounds 2.

Of an abstract or immaterial thing: refined; sophisticated; elegantly tasteful. Obsolete.

figurative. Chastened, modest, restrained from all excess. of tastes, qualities, etc.

Esp. of a person's face, features, etc.: expressive or suggestive of highly refined character, nature, or spirit; delicate, sensitive. Cf. spirituel…

Of a person, etc.: having or showing an appreciation of the beautiful or pleasing; tasteful, of refined taste. Hence: being or resembling an aesthete.

Nice. Also reduplicated for emphasis, as nicey-nicey adj. also nicey-nice.

Of a person: refined in manners or judgement, cultured, cultivated; (of language, etc.) polished, elegant.

colloquial. Smart, sophisticated. Now archaic.

Of a person: free of naïvety, experienced, worldly-wise; subtle, discriminating, refined, cultured; aware of, versed in, the complexities of a…

figurative. Refined, genteel, sentimental; hence (esp. of a man) effeminate, homosexual.