King James Bible Dictionary

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Exodus 22:1; Exodus 22:4; Exodus 22:7-9; Leviticus 5:15-16; Leviticus 6:5-6; Proverbs 6:30-31
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FINE, adjective

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, noun [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 Latin 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 [Latin in and finis.] In the end or conclusion; to conclude; to sum up all.

FINE, verb transitive [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 28:1. Proverbs 17:1.

3. To make less coarse; as, to fine grass. [Not used.]

4. To decorate; to adorn. [Not in use.]

FINE, verb transitive [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. verb intransitive To pay a fine [Not used.]

FI'NED, participle passive

1. Refined; purified; defecated.

2. Subjected to a pecuniary penalty.

FI'NEDDRAWING, noun Rentering; a dextrous or nice sewing up the rents of cloths or stuffs.

FI'NEDRAW, verb transitive [find and draw.] To sew up a rent with so much nicety that it is not perceived.

FI'NEDRAWER, noun One who finedraws.

FI'NEFINGERED, adjective Nice in workmanship; dextrous at fine work.

FI'NELESS, adjective Endless; boundless. [Not used.]

FI'NELY, adverb

1. In minute parts; as a substance finely pulverized.

2. To a thin or sharp edge; as an instrument finely sharpened.

3. Gaily; handsomely; beautifully; with elegance and taste. she was finely attired.

4. With elegance or beauty.

Plutarch says very finely that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies; for it you indulge this passion on some occasions, it will rise of itself in others.

5. With advantage; very favorably; as a house or garden finely situated.

6. Nicely; delicately; as a stuff finely wrought.

7. Purely; completely.

8. By way of irony, wretchedly; in a manner deserving of contemptuous notice. He is finely caught in his own snare.

FI'NENESS, noun

1. Thinness; smallness; slenderness; as the finances of a thread or silk. Hence.

2. Consisting of fine threads; as fine linen.

3. Smallness; minuteness; as the fineness of sand or particles; the fineness of soil or mold.

4. Clearness; purity; freedom from foreign matter; as the fineness of wine or other liquor; the fineness of gold.

5. Niceness; delicacy; as the fineness of taste.

6. Keenness; sharpness; thinness; as the finances of an edge.

7. Elegance; beauty; as fineness of person.

8. Capacity for delicate or refined conceptions; as the fineness of genius.

9. Show; splendor; gayety of appearance; elegance; as the fineness of clothes or dress.

10. Clearness; as the fineness of complexion.

11. Subtility; artfulness; ingenuity; as the fineness of wit.

12. Smoothness.

A worker in silver and gold (Proverbs 25:4). In Judges 17:4 the word (tsoreph) is rendered "founder," and in Isaiah 41:7 "goldsmith."

FI'NER, noun

1. One who refines or purifies. Proverbs 25:4.

2. adjective Comparative of fine.

FI'NERY, noun

1. Show; splendor; gaiety of colors or appearance; as the finery of a dress.

2. Showy articles of dress; gay clothes, jewels, trinkets, etc.

3. In iron-works, the second forge at the iron-mills. [See Finary.]

FI'NESPUN, adjective Drawn to a fine thread; minute; subtle.

FINESS',

FINESSE, noun Artifice; stratagem; subtilty of contrivance to gain a point.

FINESS', verb intransitive To use artifice or stratagem.

FINESS'ING, participle present tense Practicing artifice to accomplish a purpose.

FI'NESTILL, verb transitive To distill spirit from molasses, treacle or some preparation of saccharine matter.

FI'NESTILLER, noun One who distills spirit from treacle or molasses.

FI'NESTILLING, noun The operation of distilling spirit from molasses or treacle.