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.

The quality or condition of being fine.

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.

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.

An umbelliferous plant (F/niculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.

Second best wool from Merino sheep.

The bichir. See Crossopterygii.

3d pers. sing. pr. of Find, for findeth.

A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.

A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.

A variety of opal occuring in the cavities of volcanic tufa, in smooth and shining globular and botryoidal masses, having a pearly luster; -- so called from Fiora, in Ischia.

Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.

A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.

A genus (Abies) of coniferous trees, often of large size and elegant shape, some of them valued for their timber and others for their resin. The species are distinguished as the balsam fir, the silver fir, the red fir, etc. The Scotch fir is a Pinus.

To take fire; to be kindled; to kindle.

A person whose occupation it is to go to the scene of an unwanted fire and extinguish it; a member of a fire company; a fireman{1} or a woman who fights fires.

an upright hydrant that can supply large volumes of water to use in fighting a fire. They are commonly placed at intervals at the street edge of a sidewalk, spaced for convenience in suppressing fires in towns.

a substance applied or added to materials or objects, so as to reduce combustibility or slow the spread of fire.

a sale of objects damaged by fire, usually at much reduced prices.

Injured as by fire; burned; -- said of manure which has lost its goodness and acquired an ashy hue in consequence of heat generated by decomposition.

Fresh from the forge; bright; quite new; brand-new.

poinsettia (Euphoria cyathophora) of the U. S. and eastern Mexico; often confused with Euphoria heterophylla.

malicious burning to destroy property; arson.

Not able to burn or able to burn only with difficulty.

able to reduce combustibility or slow the spread of fire; -- of substances that are added to combustible materials to make them less combustible.

a price much lower than normal market price; as, the Reagan administration sold off valuable mineral and timber resources at fire-sale prices.

A set of fire irons, including, commonly, tongs, shovel, and poker.

a terrestrial evergreen shrub or small tree (Nuytsia floribunda) of West Australia having brilliant yellow-orange flowers; parasitic on roots of grasses.

A gun, pistol, or any weapon from which a shot is discharged by the force of an explosive substance, as gunpowder.

One of several species of pheasants of the genus Euplocamus, having the lower back a bright, fiery red. They inhabit Southern Asia and the East Indies.

A ball filled with powder or other combustibles, intended to be thrown among enemies, and to injure by explosion; also, to set fire to their works and light them up, so that movements may be seen.

A beacon.

The Baltimore oriole.

A chimney board or screen to close a fireplace when not in use.

An allowance of fuel. See Bote.

A piece of burning wood.

an insect (Thermobia domestica) which is a type of bristletail that lives in warm moist areas e.g. around furnaces.

a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire.

a brick made of fire clay, used for lining e.g. furnaces and chimneys.

a criminal who illegaly sets fire to property; an arsonist.

An evergreen South American shrub *Streptosolen jamesonii) having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant.

a heat-resistant clay.

A small explosive device consisting of a paper or cardboard cylinder having only sufficient explosive mixture to make a loud bang, ignited by a short fuse, and used mostly as an entertainment or in celebrations. Same as Cracker., n., 3.

A small European kinglet (Regulus ignicapillus), having a bright red crest; -- called also fire-crested wren.

a mixture of gases (mostly methane) that forms in coal mines and becomes explosive when mixed with air. It is a source of serious hazard in coal mining operations.

A support for wood in a fireplace; an andiron.

A fiery dragon.

A singular marine fish of the genus Pterois, family Scorp/nid/, of several species, inhabiting the Indo-Pacific region. They are usually red, and have very large spinose pectoral and dorsal fins.

A European sting ray of the genus Trygon (T. pastinaca); -- called also fireflare and fiery flaw.

The European band fish (Cepola rubescens).

Any luminous winged insect, esp. luminous beetles of the family Lampyrid/.

a type of luciferin produced by the firefly Photinus pyralis.

a building housing firemen and the apparatus they use to extinguish fires.