Terse

Definition of Terse

a.	1.	Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. - Sir T. Browne.
	2.	Refined; accomplished; - said of persons.
	3.	Elegantly concise; free of superfluous words; polished to smoothness; as, terse language; a terse style. Terse, luminous, and dignified eloquence. - Macaulay. A poet, too, was there, whose verse Was tender, musical, and terse. - Longfellow. "In eight terse lines has Phædrus told (So frugal were the bards of old) A tale of goats; and closed with grace, Plan, moral, all, in that short space."

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