Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FINE, v.t.² [See fine, the noun.]

1. To impose on one a pecuniary penalty, payable to the Government, for a crime or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine. The trespassers were fined ten dollars and imprisoned a month.
2. v. i. To pay a fine. [Not used.] – Oldham.