polishing
= λέανσις, polishing with wine as a cleanser (cf. Varro RR 2.11.7, Juv. 5.24), Stud.Pal. 22.183.109 (ii A.D.).
The corpus record
ῥέανσις
reansis · ἡ
polishing
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What it meant — LSJ
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.