Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: FIN'GER-ING – FIN'LESS
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FIN'GER-ING, n.
- 1. The act of touching lightly or handling. Grew.
- The manner of touching an instrument of music. Shak.
- 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.]
- Nice; spruce; foppish; pretending to great nicety or superfluous elegance; as, a finical fellow.
- 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.]
- Clarifying; refining; purifying; defecating; separating from extraneous matter.
- [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.
- The completion of a work of art; that which gives it perfection.
- The last hard, smooth coat of plaster on a wall.
FIN'ISH, v.t. [Arm. finiƧza; Fr. finir; L. finio, from finis, an end, Ir. fuin, W. fin. Class Bn, No. 23.]
- 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.
- To make perfect. Episodes, taken separately, finish nothing. Broome.
- 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.
- 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.
- Completed; ended; done; perfected.
- adj. Complete; perfect; polished to the highest degree of excellence; as, a finished poem; a finished education.
FIN'ISH-ER, a.
- One who finishes; one who completely performs. Shak.
- One who puts an end to. Hooker.
- One who completes or perfects. Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Heb. xii.
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.