Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FINE, v.t.¹ [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 xxviii. Prov. xvii.
3. To make less coarse; as, to fine grass. [Not used.] – Mortimer.
4. To decorate; to adorn. [Not is use.] – Shak.