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HONED
Adjective
honed (comparative more honed, superlative most honed)
Made sharp.
Made more accurate or precise.
Verb
honed
simple past tense and past participle of hone
Anagrams
• hedon, hen do
Source: Wiktionary
HONE
Hone, v. i. Etym: [Etymology uncertain. sq. root37.]
Definition: To pine; to lament; to long. Lamb.
Hone, n. Etym: [Cf. Icel. h a knob.]
Definition: A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Hone, n. Etym: [AS. han; akin to Icel. hein, OSw. hen; cf. Skr. ç\'be, also ç\'d3, çi, to sharpen, and E. cone. sq. root38, 228.]
Definition: 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. Hone slateSee Polishing slate.
– Hone stone, one of several kinds of stone used for hones. See Novaculite.
Hone, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Honed; p]. pr. & vb. n. Honing.]
Definition: To sharpen on, or with, a hone; to rub on a hone in order to sharpen; as, to hone a razor.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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