Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FIN'GER-ING, n.

1. 1. The act of touching lightly or handling. Grew.
2. The manner of touching an instrument of music. Shak.
3. Delicate work made with the fingers. Spenser.

FIN'GER-ING, ppr.

Handling; touching lightly.

FIN'GER-POST, n.

A post with a finger pointing, for directing passengers to the road.

FIN'GER-SHELL, n.

A marine shell resembling a finger. Dict. of Nat. Hist.

FIN'GER-STONE, n.

A fossil resembling an arrow. Johnson.

FIN'GLE-FAN-GLE, n.

A trifle. [Vulgar.] Hudibras.

FIN'GRI-GO, n.

A plant, of the genus Fisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry or plum. Lee. Ed. Encyc.

FIN'I-AL, n. [L. finio, to finish.]

The knot or branch of foliage, or flower, that forms the upper extremities of pinnacles in Gothic architecture. Elms.

FIN'I-CAL, a. [from fine.]

1. Nice; spruce; foppish; pretending to great nicety or superfluous elegance; as, a finical fellow.
2. Affectedly nice or showy; as, a finical dress.

FIN'I-CAL-LY, adv.

With great nicety or spruceness; foppishly.

FIN'I-CAL-NESS, n.

Extreme nicety in dress or manners; foppishness. Warburton.

FIN-ING, ppr. [See Fine, the verb.]

1. Clarifying; refining; purifying; defecating; separating from extraneous matter.
2. [See Fine, the noun.] Imposing a fine or pecuniary penalty.

FIN-ING-POT, n.

A vessel in which metals are refined.

FI'NIS, n. [L.]

An end; conclusion.

FIN'ISH, n.

1. The completion of a work of art; that which gives it perfection.
2. The last hard, smooth coat of plaster on a wall.

FIN'ISH, v.t. [Arm. finiçza; Fr. finir; L. finio, from finis, an end, Ir. fuin, W. fin. Class Bn, No. 23.]

1. To arrive at the end of, in performance; to complete; as, to finish a house; to finish a journey. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished. Gen. ii.
2. To make perfect. Episodes, taken separately, finish nothing. Broome.
3. To bring to an end; to end; to put an end to. Seventy weeks are determined on thy people, and on thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and make an end of sins. Dan. ix.
4. To perfect; to accomplish; to polish to the degree of excellence intended. In this sense it is frequently used in the participle of the perfect tense as an adjective. It is a finished performance. He is a finished scholar.

FIN'ISH-ED, pp.

1. Completed; ended; done; perfected.
2. adj. Complete; perfect; polished to the highest degree of excellence; as, a finished poem; a finished education.

FIN'ISH-ER, a.

1. One who finishes; one who completely performs. Shak.
2. One who puts an end to. Hooker.
3. One who completes or perfects. Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Heb. xii.

FIN'ISH-ING, or FIN'ISH, n.

Completion; completeness; perfection; last polish. Warburton.

FIN'ISH-ING, ppr.

Completing; perfecting; bringing to an end.

FI'NITE, a. [L. finitus, from finio, to finish, from finis, limit.]

Having a limit; limited; bounded; opposed to infinite, as, finite number, finite existence; applied to this life, we say a finite being, finite duration.

FI'NITE-LY, adv.

Within limits; to a certain degree only. Stillingfleet.

FI'NITE-NESS, n.

Limitation; confinement within certain boundaries; as, the finiteness of our natural powers.

FIN'I-TUDE, n.

Limitation. [Not used.] Cheyne.

FIN'LESS, a. [from fin.]

Destitute of fins; as, finless fish. Shak.