Found 3 items, similar to Hone.
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Definition: hone
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: hone
hone
n : a whetstone made of fine gritstone; used for sharpening
razors
hone
v 1: sharpen with a hone;
“hone a knife”
2: make perfect or complete;
“perfect your French in Paris!”
[syn:
perfect]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Hone
Hone
\Hone\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Honed (h[=o]nd); p. pr. & vb.
n.
Honing.]
1. To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order
to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
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2. to render more precise or more effective; as, to hone
one's skills.
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Hone
\Hone\, v. i. [Cf. F. honger to grumble. [root]37.]
To grumble; pine; lament; long. [Dial.Eng. & Southern U. S.]
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Hone
\Hone\, n. [Cf. Icel. h[=u]n a knob.]
A kind of swelling in the cheek.
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Hone
\Hone\, n. [AS. h[=a]n; akin to Icel. hein, OSw. hen; cf.
Skr. [,c][=a][.n]a, also [,c][=o], [,c]i, to sharpen, and E.
cone. [root]38, 228.]
A stone of a fine grit, or a slab, as of metal, covered with
an abrading substance or powder, used for sharpening cutting
instruments, and especially for setting razors; an oilstone.
--Tusser.
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Hone slateSee
Polishing slate.
Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones.
See
Novaculite.
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