Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for RE-FIN-ER
RE-FIN-ER, n.
- One that refines metals or other things. – Bacon.
- An improver in purity and elegance; as, a refiner of language. – Swift.
- An inventor of superfluous subtilties; one who is over nice in discrimination, in argument, reasoning, philosophy, &c.
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