To cause to shine; to make smooth and bright; to polish; specifically, to polish by rubbing with something hard and smooth; as, to burnish brass or paper.
To shine forth; to brighten; to become smooth and glossy, as from swelling or filling out; hence, to grow large.
To polish by rubbing. For instance, after gold leaf is applied to a substrate, it is burnished with a cotton cloth to bring up the shine and reveal any holes where the leaf will have to applied a second time.
A hand troweled finish using a stainless steel spatula, a method that is typically employed over a Venetian Plaster and aided with burnishing wax, burnishing gives a smooth, glass-like finish to the wall surface.
To rub pasteup boards with a tool called a burnisher in order to affix galleys to them and smooth out any wrinkles.
the property of being smooth and shiny
polish and make shiny; "buff the wooden floors"; "buff my shoes"
To polish using a hard, smooth tool such as a trowel or putty knife.
A process similar to buffing. A high speed machine (burnisher) is used to enhance the appearance and polish of the floor finish. A very high gloss level can be achieved when using high speed burnishers above 1500 rpm.
In intaglio printing, the process of rubbing or smoothing the raised metal surface of the plate, using a metal tool to compact teh tooth of the printing surface. It is used in mezzotint to create the whites and is sometimes used as a method to correct mistakes. In relief printing, burnishing refers to the printing process, in which an image is transferred from an inked block to paper by hand rubbing.
To polish to the point that a glossy finish is resulting.
Rubbing the surface of your work with a smooth soft cloth polishing to a glossy finish.
To seal the pores of leather or wood by rubbing it vigorously with micro-sandpaper, or some such other fine material. This helps to protect the shaft, improves tip contact, and extends the life of a tip.
(2) -- the rubbing or polishing of the surface of a pot with the smooth piece of stone, bone, pottery or wood after it had dried in the sun but before it was fired in the kiln; this technique produced an attractive glossy surface after firing (Warren, 140) Sample Image (Lesson 2)
to create a smooth surface on the work piece by moving a polished tool across it
To enhance finish (making it glossy) by polishing.
Smooth or shiny area above the breakout on a sheared edge. Also called shear or cut band.
v. To make brilliant or shining.
Use of a tool to firmly rub copper foil onto glass. The point being that copper foil that is not burnished will fall apart upon soldering or any stress being placed on the project.
To burnish means to polish or make shiny by rubbing. It also means to rub (a material) with a tool for compacting or smoothing or for turning an edge. Altered book artists burnish pages that have been glued together to reduce wrinkling and warping.
Simply means rub with a blunt object.
(gold): Rubbing metal leaf with specially-made tools to smooth and polish its surface. Burnishing tools can be made of haematite, psilomelanite, or most commonly, agate; they come in several shapes, needle point, dogtooth, and lipstick being the most common. See image below. Burnished leaf will ideally reach a shining mirror-finish. Agate burnishers
A term used for the process of "rubbing down" lines and dots on a printing plate, which darkens those rubbed areas.
To polish by friction; to make smooth and bright, especially by rubbing or friction; to brighten or make lustrous.
Part of the method for correcting incised lines in an intaglio plate after the area below the level of the incision has been scraped away so that it will no longer hold ink, it is smothered and polished so that incidental lines of scraping will not print.
To smooth the surface of a pot by rubbing with a hard object to give a finish with a polished effect.
To smooth and seal by rubbing element. adhered to a mechanical.
The use of a smooth object to polish the surface of leather-hard clay.
Burnishing is a form of pottery decoration in which the surface of the pot is polished, often using a spatula of wood or bone, while it still is in a leathery 'green' state, i.e. before firing. After firing, the surface is extremely shiny. Often the whole outer surface of the pot is thus decorated, but in certain ceramic traditions there is 'pattern burnishing' where the outside and, in the case of open bowls, the inside, are decorated with burnished patterns in which some areas are left matte.
