n. In silk-manuf., an operation of twisting the hanks of silk, after dyeing, and when perfectly dry.
n. In leather manufacturing, the rubbing of virtually finished leather with a solution which gives it a final luster.
Word Usage
"The superficiality is downright dangerous, I think, in glossing over the fact that you can suppress theistic religion and end up with worse racism — c.f. anti-semitism in Soviet Russia — because atheistic ideologies can function in exactly the same way to create exactly the same type of “bad thinking”."