terse

terse is an Adverb

Definition:

[1] Appearing as if rubbed or wiped off; rubbed; smooth; polished. [Obs.] Many stones, . . . although terse and smooth, have not this power attractive. Sir T. Browne.

[2] Refined; accomplished; -- said of persons. [R. & Obs.] "Your polite and terse gallants." Massinger.

[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.