| • | Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful. |
| • | Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy. |
| • | Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous. |
| • | Not coarse, gross, or heavy |
| • | Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous. |
| • | Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour. |
| • | Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread. |
| • | Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge. |
| • | Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk. |
| • | Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine. |
| • | (Used ironically.) |
| • | To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold. |
| • | To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil. |
| • | To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually. |
| • | End; conclusion; termination; extinction. |
| • | A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct. |
| • | A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal. |
| • | A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease. |
| • | To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars. |
| • | To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b). |
| • | To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease. |
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