What is anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. Mock the nice touches of the critic's file. Akenside called?
file — Anything employed to smooth, polish, or rasp, literally or figuratively. Mock the nice touches of the critic's file. Akenside. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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