- Improve subtly - Purify - Raise spirits - Rectify pollution ... reef in crisis! - To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free
from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from
extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or
silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar. - To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant,
low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to
refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect,
or the moral feelings. - To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.
- A fusible white cast iron containing a large amount of
carbon (from three and a half to six per cent) and some manganese. When
the manganese reaches twenty-five per cent and upwards it has a
granular structure, and constitutes the alloy ferro manganese, largely
used in the manufacture of Bessemer steel. Called also specular pig
iron, spiegel, and spiegeleisen.