rare. [f. BURNISH v.1] Burnishing; a burnishing; spec. anything laid over a surface to give a bright and glossy look.
c. 1647. Crashaw, Poems, 135. Blushes, that bin The burnish of no sin.
1728. Ramsay, Ep. Friends Ireland. Giving ilka verse a burnish.
1781. Smeathman, in Phil. Trans., LXXI. 179. The lacquer or burnish with which the brasswork was covered was totally spoiled.
1871. Daily News, 6 Sept., 2/2. The burnish then if it was surplusage, was at least that, and no subtraction from efficiency.
