Son; -- sometimes used after a French proper name to distinguish a son from his father, as, Alexandre Dumas, fils.

Same as Philter.

having a tip designed to filter the smoke; -- of a cigarette or cigar; as, filter-tipped cigarettes.

Foul matter; anything that soils or defiles; dirt; nastiness.

In a filthy manner; foully.

The state of being filthy.

Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene.

That which has been filtered; the liquid which has passed through the filter in the process of filtration. Contrasted with retentate, the material remaining on the filter.

The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Light summer hemp, that bears no seed.

A fringe, or fringed border. A band of white matter bordering the hippocampus in the brain.

To hem; to fringe.

Having a fringed border; fimbriate.

Fringed; jagged; fimbriate.

An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

Having palmate feet. Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.

Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.

Liable or subject to a fine; as, a finable person or offense.

to achieve something by means of trickery or devious methods.

Pertaining to the end or conclusion; last; terminating; ultimate; as, the final day of a school term.

Close; termination The last movement of a symphony, sonata, concerto, or any instrumental composition. The last composition performed in any act of an opera. The closing part, piece, or scene in any public performance or exhibition.

same as finalization.

Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.

The state of being final, finished, or complete; a final or conclusive arrangement; a settlement.

the act of finalizing.

to put the last touches on; put into final form.

At the end or conclusion; ultimately; lastly; as, the contest was long, but the Romans finally conquered.

To conduct the finances of; to provide for, and manage, the capital for; to financier.

assets in the form of money.

Pertaining to finance.

A financier.

In a financial manner.

To conduct financial operations.

See Finery.

Conclusive; decisive; definitive; final.

Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Bal/noptera, and allied genera, of the family Bal/nopterid/, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.

A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillid/.

Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.

Same as Finchbacked.

Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by arch/ologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin.

Capable of being found; discoverable.

One who, or that which, finds; a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily, called also a finder telescope or finder scope.

A censurer or caviler.

Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious.

That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc.

Full; heavy; firm; solid; substantial.

Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.

To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale will fine; the weather fined.

consisting of fine particles.

pleasing in appearance especially by reason of conformity to ideals of form and proportion; as, a fine-looking woman.

having fine teeth set close together; as, a fine-tooth comb.

to adjust carefully and precisely so as to achieve optimum performance or efficiency; as, The mechanic fine-tuned the engine.

liable to a fine.

subjected to punishment by a fine.

To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter.

One who finedraws.

Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.

To veneer.

Endless; boundless.

In a fine or finished manner.

One who fines or purifies.

Fineness; beauty.

Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.

To use artifice or stratagem.

To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.

One who finestills.

Moldiness.

A finback whale. True fish, as distinguished from shellfish.

A South American bird (Heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.

To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.

a close-fitting sheath worn at the end of a finger, for protection of the finger or to avoid soiling the object touched.

A type of paint having the consistency of a thin paste or jelly, which is applied to a surface by dipping fingers into the paint and smearing the paint on the surface, usually in artistic patterns. It is used primarily by children.

Creating pictures using finger paint.

A shot that rolls off the tips of the fingers into the basket.

a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger.

the length or breadth of a finger used as a linear measure.

Having fingers.

One who fingers; a pilferer.

The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.

A young salmon. See Parr.

To paint{1} with fingerpaint.

a guidepost resembling a hand with a pointing index finger.

to take an impression of the fingerprints of (a person); as, to fingerprint applicants for a gun permit.

The procedure of taking inked impressions of a person's fingerprints.

tall leafy European biennial or perennial (Digitalis purpurea) having spectacular clusters of large tubular pink-purple flowers; -- its leaves yield the drug digitalis and are poisonous to livestock.

a sheath worn to protect a finger.

the end (tip) of a finger.

A trifle.

A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.

The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.

Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.

The quality of being finical; finicalness.

Finical; unduly particular; excessively demanding over minor details.

A limiting element or quality.

To make fine; to dress finically.

Precise in trifles; idly busy.

The act of imposing a fin/.

An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.

That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.

Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education.

One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection.

Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use.

Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.

Infinite.

In a finite manner or degree.

The state of being finite.

Limitation.

In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, such as is held in a cup or stand called a zarf.

A native or inhabitant of Finland.

destitute of fins.

A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.

Resembling a fin.

A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns.

Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin.

A finback whale.

Of or pertaining to the Finns.

A variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse.

Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language. A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.

Natives of Finland; Finlanders. A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders.

Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.