burnish

verb burnish

• shine — to give forth or glow with light; shed or cast light.
• rub — to subject the surface of (a thing or person) to pressure and friction, as in cleaning, smoothing, polishing, coating, massaging, or soothing: to rub a table top with wax polish; to rub the entire back area.
• glaze — to furnish or fill with glass: to glaze a window.
• furbish — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
• gloss — an explanation or translation, by means of a marginal or interlinear note, of a technical or unusual expression in a manuscript text.