Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Lexicon: final – finite
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final (-est), adj. [Fr. pertaining to the end.] (webplay: finish, last).
- Last; ultimate; last of a series.
- Pertaining to the end; conclusion; terminating.
- Discerning.
finally, adv. [see final, adj.] (webplay: last).
Lastly; at the end; concluding; (see 2 Corinthians 13:11).
financier (-s), n. [Fr.]
Treasurer; calculator; banker; collector.
find (-s, -ing, found), v. [OE findan.] (webplay: accord, aid, ask, assault, before, bring, business, catch, come, discover, ease, expedition, experiment, eye, few, first, gain, gate, given, glory, God, guilty, have, hidden, house, knowledge, learn, life, light, lost, meaning, meet, obtain, pain, provisions, reach, recover, search, searching, secret, seek, seen, self, set, sight, sounding, sum, thief, torrid, touching, truth, unknown, unriddle, visit, way, woods, zone).
- Encounter; bump into; come upon; succeed in reaching; (see Genesis 4:14).
- Recover; regain; recuperate; locate something; (see Genesis 4:15).
- Realize; comprehend; grasp mentally; (see Numbers 32:23).
- Discover; detect; notice; observe; (see Genesis 18:28).
- See; perceive; feel; sense; (see Genesis 10:11).
- Consider; regard; declare; make known; (see Genesis 47:25).
- Phrase. “find out”: discover; understand; ascertain; learn; reveal by examination; test by experiment; (see Job 11:17).
fine (-r, -st), adj. [It. finire.] (webplay: artful, building, eminent, face, free, gentleman, gold, hair, house, keen, lady, manners, metal, mind, minute, music, noble, notice, painting, pleasure, poetry, refine, rise, sand, silk, silver, small, spirit, superior, thought, thread, trumpet, view, wine, worthy).
- Proper; mannered; correct; dignified; socially graceful.
- Grand; royal; elegant; elite; ritzy; socially elevated; high class; (see 2 Chronicles 3:8).
- Small; thin; minuscule; slender; (see Genesis 18:6).
- Excellent; superior; valuable; high in quality; (see Genesis 41:42).
- Good; honorable; esteemed; respected; virtuous; morally justified; well thought of.
- Sharp; clear; thoughtful; insightful; acute; discerning; accurate.
- Accomplished; trained; skilled; well-schooled.
- Strong; intense; advanced.
- Divine; supreme; elect; provident; God-given.
finger (-s, -'s), n. [OE] (webplay: bones, breadth, extreme, God, hand, handle, hold, keyed, lightly, measure, music, part, power, skill, small, take, thievishly, touch).
- Digit; human physical anatomy; terminal extension of the hand; one of five; [fig.] part of anatomy used in the personification of mythological characters; (see Exodus 8:19).
- Extension; protraction of an inanimate object; lengthening of a body of elements.
- Handiwork ability; capacity for manual labor; [synecdoche] the whole person.
finish (-ed, -ing), v. [ME fenys.] (webplay: arrive, end, house, make).
- Complete; terminate; cease; bring to an end; (see Exodus 39:32).
- Accomplish; execute; achieve; perfect; (see Genesis 6:16)
finished, verbal adj. [see finish, v.]
Accomplished; executed; achieved; perfected; completed.
finite, adj. [L. finire.]
Limited; bounded; restricted; restrained.
finite, n. [see finite, adj.]
Limited thing; mortal; defined object.