Finesse (v. i.) To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.
Finestill (v. t.) To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.
Finestiller (n.) One who finestills.
Finew (n.) Moldiness.
Finfish (n.) A finback whale.
Finfish (n.) True fish, as distinguished from shellfish.
Finfoot (n.) A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.
Fin-footed (a.) Having palmate feet.
Fin-footed (a.) Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.
Finger (n.) One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
Finger (n.) Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.
Finger (n.) The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.
Finger (n.) Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
Fingered (imp. & p. p.) of Finger
Fingering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Finger
Finger (v. t.) To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.
Finger (v. t.) To touch lightly; to toy with.
Finger (v. t.) To perform on an instrument of music.
Finger (v. t.) To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
Finger (v. t.) To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
Finger (v. t.) To execute, as any delicate work.
Finger (v. i.) To use the fingers in playing on an instrument.
Fingered (a.) Having fingers.
Fingered (a.) Having leaflets like fingers; digitate.
Fingered (a.) Marked with figures designating which finger should be used for each note.
Fingerer (n.) One who fingers; a pilferer.
Fingering (n.) The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers.
Fingering (n.) The manner of using the fingers in playing or striking the keys of an instrument of music; movement or management of the fingers in playing on a musical instrument, in typewriting, etc.
Fingering (n.) The marking of the notes of a piece of music to guide or regulate the action or use of the fingers.
Fingering (n.) Delicate work made with the fingers.
Fingerling (n.) A young salmon. See Parr.
Fingle-fangle (n.) A trifle.
Fingrigos (pl. ) of Fingrigo
Fingrigo (n.) A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.
Finial (n.) The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.
Finical (a.) Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious.
Finicality (n.) The quality of being finical; finicalness.
Finicking (a.) Alt. of Finicky
Finicky (a.) Finical; unduly particular.
Finific (n.) A limiting element or quality.
Finify (a.) To make fine; to dress finically.
Finikin (a.) Precise in trifles; idly busy.
Fining (n.) The act of imposing a fin/.
Fining (n.) The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.
Fining (n.) That which is used to refine; especially, a preparation of isinglass, gelatin, etc., for clarifying beer.
Finis (n.) An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.
Finished (imp. & p. p.) of Finish
Finishing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Finish
Finish (v. t.) To arrive at the end of; to bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate.
Finish (v. t.) To bestow the last required labor upon; to complete; to bestow the utmost possible labor upon; to perfect; to accomplish; to polish.
Finish (v. i.) To come to an end; to terminate.
Finish (v. i.) To end; to die.
Finish (n.) That which finishes, puts an end to/ or perfects.
Finish (n.) The joiner work and other finer work required for the completion of a building, especially of the interior. See Inside finish, and Outside finish.
Finish (n.) The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.
Finish (n.) See Finishing coat, under Finishing.
Finish (n.) The result of completed labor, as on the surface of an object; manner or style of finishing; as, a rough, dead, or glossy finish given to cloth, stone, metal, etc.
Finish (n.) Completion; -- opposed to start, or beginning.
Finished (a.) Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education.
Finisher (n.) 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.
Finisher (n.) Something that gives the finishing touch to, or settles, anything.
Finishing (n.) The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.
Finishing (a.) Tending to complete or to render fit for the market or for use.
Finite (a.) 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.
Finiteless (a.) Infinite.
Finitely (adv.) In a finite manner or degree.
Finiteness (n.) The state of being finite.
Finitude (n.) Limitation.
Finlander (n.) A native or inhabitant of Finland.
Finless (a.) destitute of fins.
Finlet (n.) A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.
Finlike (a.) Resembling a fin.
Finn (a.) A native of Finland; one of the Finn/ in the ethnological sense. See Finns.
Finnan haddie () Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fin"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock.
Finned (a.) Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin.
Finner (n.) A finback whale.
Finnic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Finns.
Finnikin (n.) A variety of pigeon, with a crest somewhat resembling the mane of a horse.
Finnish (a.) Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.
Finnish (n.) A Northern Turanian group of languages; the language of the Finns.
Finns (n. pl.) Natives of Finland; Finlanders.
Finns (n. pl.) A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders.
Finny (a.) Having, or abounding in, fins, as fishes; pertaining to fishes.
Finny (a.) Abounding in fishes.
Finochio (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Foeniculum dulce) having a somewhat tuberous stem; sweet fennel. The blanched stems are used in France and Italy as a culinary vegetable.
Finos (n. pl.) Second best wool from Merino sheep.
Finpike (n.) The bichir. See Crossopterygii.
Fint () 3d pers. sing. pr. of Find, for findeth.
Fin-toed (a.) Having toes connected by a membrane; palmiped; palmated; also, lobate.
Fiord (n.) A narrow inlet of the sea, penetrating between high banks or rocks, as on the coasts of Norway and Alaska.
Fiorin (n.) A species of creeping bent grass (Agrostis alba); -- called also fiorin grass.
Fiorite (n.) 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.
Fioriture (n. pl.) Little flowers of ornament introduced into a melody by a singer or player.
Fippenny bit () The Spanish half real, or one sixteenth of a dollar, -- so called in Pennsylvania and the adjacent States.
Fipple (n.) A stopper, as in a wind instrument of music.
Fir (n.) 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.
Fire (n.) The evolution of light and heat in the combustion of bodies; combustion; state of ignition.
Fire (n.) Fuel in a state of combustion, as on a hearth, or in a stove or a furnace.
Fire (n.) The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
Fire (n.) Anything which destroys or affects like fire.