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Fine
FINE, a.
1. Small; thin; slender; minute; of very small diameter; as a fine thread; fine silk; a fine hair. We say also, fine sand, fine particles.
2. Subtil; thin; tenuous; as, fine spirits evaporate; a finer medium opposed to a grosser.
3. Thin; keep; smoothly sharp; as the fine edge of a razor.
4. Made of fine threads; not coarse; as fine linen or cambric.
5. Clear; pure; free from feculence or foreign matter; as fine gold or silver; wine is not good till fine.
6. Refined.
Those things were too fine to be fortunate, and succeed in all parts.
7. Nice; delicate; perceiving or discerning minute beauties or deformities; as a fine taste; a fine sense.
8. Subtil; artful; dextrous. [See Finess.]
9. Subtil; sly; fraudulent.
10. Elegant; beautiful in thought.
To call the trumpet by the name of the metal was fine.
11. Very handsome; beautiful with dignity.
The lady has a fine person, or a fine face.
12. Accomplished; elegant in manners. He was one of the finest gentlemen of his age.
13. Accomplished in learning; excellent; as a fine scholar.
14. Excellent; superior; brilliant or acute; as a man of fine genius.
15. Amiable; noble; ingenuous; excellent; as a man of a fine mind.
16. Showy; splendid; elegant; as a range of fine buildings; a fine house or garden; a fine view.
17. Ironically, worthy of contemptuous notice; eminent for bad qualities.
That same knave, Ford, her husband, has the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy.
Fine Arts or polite arts, are the arts which depend chiefly on the labors of the mind or imagination, and whose object is pleasure; as poetry, music, painting and sculpture.
The uses of this word are so numerous and indefinite, as to preclude a particular definition of each. In general, fine, in popular language, expresses whatever is excellent, showy or magnificent.
FINE, n. [This word is the basis of finance, but I have not found it, in its simple form, in any modern language, except the English. The word seems to be the L. finis, and the application of it to pecuniary compensation seems to have proceeded from its feudal use, in the transfer of lands, in which a final agreement or concord was made between the lord and his vassal.]
1. In a feudal sense, a final agreement between persons concerning lands or rents, or between the lord and his vassal, prescribing the conditions on which the latter should hold his lands.
2. A sum of money paid to the lord by his tenant, for permission to alienate or transfer his lands to another. This in England was exacted only from the king's tenants in capite.
3. A sum of money paid to the king or state by way of penalty for an offense; a mulet; a pecuniary punishment. Fines are usually prescribed by statute, for the several violations of law; or the limit is prescribed, beyond which the judge cannot impose a fine for a particular offense.
In fine. [L. in and finis.] In the end or conclusion; to conclude; to sum up all.
FINE, v.t. [See Fine, the adjective.]
1. To clarify; to refine; to purify; to defecate; to free from feculence or foreign matter; as, to fine wine.
[This is the most general use of this word.]
2. To purify, as a metal; as, to fine gold or silver. In this sense, we now generally use refine; but fine is proper.
Job 28. Prov 17.
3. To make less coarse; as, to fine grass. [Not used.]
4. To decorate; to adorn. [Not in use.]
FINE, v.t. [See Fine, the noun.]
1. To impose on one a pecuniary penalty, payable to the government, for a crime or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine. The trespassers were fined ten dollars and imprisoned a month.
2. v.i. To pay a fine. [Not used.]
fine appears in definitions for these words:
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Adatis Adultery Ajuru-curau Alcohol Alienation Allay Allegory Alloy Alloyage Alloying Almagra Amend Amerced Amercement Amercer Ancony Antimony Aquatinta Array Artist Assay-master Atlas Attagen Attenuate Attenuating Attenuation Aura Avarice Azure Babery Bad Bailer Ban Banana Bar Barberry Barrel Basket-salt Batist Bawble Bawcock Baza Beagle Bear Beau Beauish Benzoic Bergamot Beryl-crystal Bestor Bice Bildstein Black-bird Blacksmith Blood-vessel Bocasine Body Bole Bolter Bototoe Bowling-green Bragly Bravery Breasted Brick Brilliant Bronz Burgh Button-stone Byssolite Cadmium Calamanco Calx Cambric Camel Capias Capillament Capillary Capitally Carat Card Cheat-bread Chirograph Chirographer Chivalry Chocolate Chrome Chyme Cimolite Cinnabar Citrine Civilly Clarified Clarify Classic Clavichord Clear Clinquant Coarse Coarsely Cobalt Cocket-bread Cognizance Cognizee Cognizor Cold Collapse Collarage Come Command Commensurate Comminute Comminuted Comminuting Comminution Comparable Comparative Compound Concord Condemn Confine Conglobate Conny Contusion Coralline Corol Corolla Corporale Cotton Cotton-shrub Counterdraw Crass Cravat Creance Critic Critical Criticism Crockery Crown-glass Crush Cushion Cut Dainty Damage Damask Daub Daubed Debased Debasement Deceive Declension Deforciant Delicacy Delicate Depose Deposition Detect Dilettante Disdiaclastic Doomage Dove Down Drizzle Drizzling Dust Earth Ebony Efflorescence Elegance Elutriation Embellishment Embroider Emerald Emery Enamel Encouragement Eriach Estoppel Ether Ethics Eurite Exile Exility Fabric Farin Felicity Fertilizing Fiber Fibrous Fieldfare Filament Filamentous Fin Finable Final Finance Finary Fine Finedrawer Finefingered Finely Fineness Finer Finery Finespun Finess Finical Fining Flavor Flax Flour Flow Flower Fluder Fluted Fnespoken Force Forfeit Forfeiture Forgive Forgiveness Fovilla Frill From Fur Fustet Fuzz Fuzzball Gaily Gairish Gairishness Galban Galena Gallant Gallantry Garble Garden Gaud Gaudery Gaudily Gaudiness Gaudy Gay Gayety Gayly Gayness Giallolino Gird Girdle Gnat Go Gorgeous Gorgeously Gossamer Grain Grind Gross Growth Gunpowder Hackle Hackly Hair Hairpowder Hand Hatchel Hepatic Herborized Heriot High-day Holla Homely Hone Hydrofluoric Hymen I Imperceptible Improvable Incumbency Indianite Inlay Into Iron Ivory Ivory-black Jasponyx Jeat Jersey Jimmers Jingling Keen Keenness Kyanite Lace Lampblack Lanuginous Lawn Lazuli Lepidopter Levigate Levigated Levigating Levigation Levy Lime Lithomarga Livingly Lupulin Magistery Mahogany Manchet Marble Marquetry Meal Meniver Miasm Mill Minion Minionlike Minuteness Misle Miss Mist Mistle Mohair-shell Mold Morocco Mother Much Muddy Mulct Muskmelon Muslin Neat Nephritic Nephritical Nice Nitid Obstruct Oleander Paper Passion Peep Penalty Pencil Persuasion Phosphorus Pickle Piece Pile Pollen Porcelain Porphyry Post-fine Pounce Pound Pour Powder Present Primer-fine Provisor Pulverable Pulverize Pulverized Pulverizing Pulverulent Punish Purchase Quachilto Quaint Rain Ramp Ransom Rarely Ratafia Realize Reasonable Rectify Refine Regulus Relief Relish Renter Rentered Renterer Rentering Reprobate Richness Rotten-stone Ruffle Sac Sand Sarcenet Sarse Scintillant Scintillate Sconce Screen Sea-needle Searce Sentimentalist Sentimentality Sequester Serrated Serrulate Set Sharp Sharp-edged Sharpen Sharply Shawl Show-bread Showy Shred Shrillness Sieve Sift Sifting Siliqua Silk Silver Sindon Size Sleet Small Smallness Smell Smitt Socotorine Socotrine Soften Softness Soot Sort Spark Sparkish Spider Spiritous Spiritousness Spirituous Spred Sprinkle Sprinkled Sprinkling Spruceness Standard Staple Stelechite Sterlet Stigmatize Striated Strop Stucco Subtil Subtility Subtilization Subtilize Subtilly Subtilness Subtilty Superfine Swansdown Swingling-tow Table Taffeta Take Tarin Taste Tawdriness Tawdry Tear Terre-plein Test Theft Thin Thred Tincture Topped Torsion Touch Tow Trick Tripoli Triturable Triturate Triturated Triturating Trituration Tungsten Turban Turn Twine Twist Umber Unclarified Vein Vellum Velvet Velveting Veneer Villous Virtu Virtuoso Wastel Whip Wire-grate Wiredrawing Wiredrawn Wool Work Yttria Zest Zirconia
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