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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

FINE, a.
1. Small; thin; slender; minute; of very small diameter; as a fine thread; fine silk; a fine hair. We say also, fine sand, fine particles.
2. Subtil; thin; tenuous; as, fine spirits evaporate; a finer medium opposed to a grosser.
3. Thin; keep; smoothly sharp; as the fine edge of a razor.
4. Made of fine threads; not coarse; as fine linen or cambric.
5. Clear; pure; free from feculence or foreign matter; as fine gold or silver; wine is not good till fine.
6. Refined.
Those things were too fine to be fortunate, and succeed in all parts.
7. Nice; delicate; perceiving or discerning minute beauties or deformities; as a fine taste; a fine sense.
8. Subtil; artful; dextrous. [See Finess.]
9. Subtil; sly; fraudulent.
10. Elegant; beautiful in thought.
To call the trumpet by the name of the metal was fine.
11. Very handsome; beautiful with dignity.
The lady has a fine person, or a fine face.
12. Accomplished; elegant in manners. He was one of the finest gentlemen of his age.
13. Accomplished in learning; excellent; as a fine scholar.
14. Excellent; superior; brilliant or acute; as a man of fine genius.
15. Amiable; noble; ingenuous; excellent; as a man of a fine mind.
16. Showy; splendid; elegant; as a range of fine buildings; a fine house or garden; a fine view.
17. Ironically, worthy of contemptuous notice; eminent for bad qualities.
That same knave, Ford, her husband, has the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, Master Brook, that ever governed frenzy.
Fine Arts or polite arts, are the arts which depend chiefly on the labors of the mind or imagination, and whose object is pleasure; as poetry, music, painting and sculpture.
The uses of this word are so numerous and indefinite, as to preclude a particular definition of each. In general, fine, in popular language, expresses whatever is excellent, showy or magnificent.
FINE, n. [This word is the basis of finance, but I have not found it, in its simple form, in any modern language, except the English. The word seems to be the L. finis, and the application of it to pecuniary compensation seems to have proceeded from its feudal use, in the transfer of lands, in which a final agreement or concord was made between the lord and his vassal.]
1. In a feudal sense, a final agreement between persons concerning lands or rents, or between the lord and his vassal, prescribing the conditions on which the latter should hold his lands.
2. A sum of money paid to the lord by his tenant, for permission to alienate or transfer his lands to another. This in England was exacted only from the king's tenants in capite.
3. A sum of money paid to the king or state by way of penalty for an offense; a mulet; a pecuniary punishment. Fines are usually prescribed by statute, for the several violations of law; or the limit is prescribed, beyond which the judge cannot impose a fine for a particular offense.
In fine. [L. in and finis.] In the end or conclusion; to conclude; to sum up all.
FINE, v.t. [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 28. Proverbs 17.
3. To make less coarse; as, to fine grass. [Not used.]
4. To decorate; to adorn. [Not in use.]
FINE, v.t. [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.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: being satisfactory or in satisfactory condition; "an all- right movie"; "the passengers were shaken up but are all right"; "is everything all right?"; "everything's fine"; "things are okay"; "dinner and the movies had been fine"; "another minute I'd have been fine" [syn: all right, fine, o.k., ok, okay, hunky-dory]
2: minutely precise especially in differences in meaning; "a fine distinction"
3: thin in thickness or diameter; "a fine film of oil"; "fine hairs"; "read the fine print"
4: characterized by elegance or refinement or accomplishment; "fine wine"; "looking fine in her Easter suit"; "a fine gentleman"; "fine china and crystal"; "a fine violinist"; "the fine hand of a master"
5: of textures that are smooth to the touch or substances consisting of relatively small particles; "wood with a fine grain"; "fine powdery snow"; "fine rain"; "batiste is a cotton fabric with a fine weave"; "covered with a fine film of dust" [ant: coarse, harsh]
6: free from impurities; having a high or specified degree of purity; "gold 21 carats fine" n
1: money extracted as a penalty [syn: fine, mulct, amercement] v
1: issue a ticket or a fine to as a penalty; "I was fined for parking on the wrong side of the street"; "Move your car or else you will be ticketed!" [syn: ticket, fine] adv
1: an expression of agreement normally occurring at the beginning of a sentence [syn: very well, fine, alright, all right, OK]
2: in a delicate manner; "finely shaped features"; "her fine drawn body" [syn: finely, fine, delicately, exquisitely]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French fin, fine, from Latin finis boundary, end Date: 13th century 1. obsolete end, conclusion 2. a compromise of a fictitious suit used as a form of conveyance of lands 3. a. a sum imposed as punishment for an offense b. a forfeiture or penalty paid to an injured party in a civil action II. transitive verb (fined; fining) Date: 1559 to impose a fine on ; punish by a fine III. adjective (finer; finest) Etymology: Middle English fin, from Anglo-French, from Latin finis, noun, end, limit Date: 13th century 1. a. free from impurity b. of a metal having a stated proportion of pure metal in the composition expressed in parts per thousand <a gold coin .9166 fine> 2. a. (1) very thin in gauge or texture <fine thread> (2) not coarse <fine sand> (3) very small <fine print> (4) keen <a knife with a fine edge> (5) very precise or accurate <a fine adjustment> <trying to be too fine with his pitches> b. physically trained or hardened close to the limit of efficiency — used of an athlete or animal 3. delicate, subtle, or sensitive in quality, perception, or discrimination <a fine distinction> 4. superior in kind, quality, or appearance ; excellent <a fine job> <a fine day> <fine wines> 5. a. ornate 1 <fine writing> b. marked by or affecting elegance or refinement <fine manners> 6. a. very well <feel fine> b. all right <that's fine with me> 7. — used as an intensive <the leader, in a fine frenzy, beheaded one of his wives — Brian Crozier> • fineness noun IV. adverb Date: 14th century 1. finely: as a. very well b. all right 2. with a very narrow margin of time or space <she had not intended to cut her escape so fine — Melinda Beck et al.> V. verb (fined; fining) Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. purify, clarify <fine and filter wine> 2. to make finer in quality or size intransitive verb 1. to become pure or clear <the ale will fine> 2. to become smaller in lines or proportions VI. noun Etymology: Italian, from Latin finis end Date: circa 1798 end — used as a direction in music to mark the closing point after a repeat

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. adj., n., adv., & v. --adj. 1 of high quality. 2 a excellent; of notable merit (a fine painting). b good, satisfactory (that will be fine). c fortunate (has been a fine thing for him). d well conceived or expressed (a fine saying). 3 a pure, refined. b (of gold or silver) containing a specified proportion of pure metal. 4 of handsome appearance or size; imposing, dignified (fine buildings; a person of fine presence). 5 in good health (I'm fine, thank you). 6 (of weather etc.) bright and clear with sunshine; free from rain. 7 a thin; sharp. b in small particles. c worked in slender thread. d (esp. of print) small. e (of a pen) narrow-pointed. 8 Cricket behind the wicket and near the line of flight of the ball. 9 tritely complimentary; euphemistic (say fine things about a person; call things by fine names). 10 ornate, showy, smart. 11 fastidious, dainty, pretending refinement; (of speech or writing) affectedly ornate. 12 a capable of delicate perception or discrimination. b perceptible only with difficulty (a fine distinction). 13 a delicate, subtle, exquisitely fashioned. b (of feelings) refined, elevated. 14 (of wine or other goods) of a high standard; conforming to a specified grade. --n. 1 fine weather (in rain or fine). 2 (in pl.) very small particles in mining, milling, etc. --adv. 1 finely. 2 colloq. very well (suits me fine). --v. 1 (often foll. by down) a tr. make (beer or wine) clear. b intr. (of liquid) become clear. 2 tr. & intr. (often foll. by away, down, off) make or become finer, thinner, or less coarse; dwindle or taper, or cause to do so. Phrases and idioms: cut (or run) it fine allow very little margin of time etc. fine arts those appealing to the mind or to the sense of beauty, as poetry, music, and esp. painting, sculpture, and architecture. fine chemicals see CHEMICAL. fine-draw sew together (two pieces of cloth, edges of a tear, parts of a garment) so that the join is imperceptible. fine-drawn 1 extremely thin. 2 subtle. fine print detailed printed information, esp. in legal documents, instructions, etc. fine-spun 1 delicate. 2 (of a theory etc.) too subtle, unpractical. fine-tooth comb a comb with narrow close-set teeth. fine-tune make small adjustments to (a mechanism etc.) in order to obtain the best possible results. fine up Austral. colloq. (of the weather) become fine. go over with a fine-tooth comb check or search thoroughly. not to put too fine a point on it (as a parenthetic remark) to speak bluntly. Derivatives: finely adv. fineness n. Etymology: ME f. OF fin ult. f. L finire finish 2. n. & v. --n. 1 a sum of money exacted as a penalty. 2 hist. a sum of money paid by an incoming tenant in return for the rent's being small. --v.tr. punish by a fine (fined him £5). Phrases and idioms: in fine to sum up; in short. Derivatives: finable adj. Etymology: ME f. OF fin f. med.L finis sum paid on settling a lawsuit f. L finis end 3. n. = FINE CHAMPAGNE. Etymology: abbr.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fine Fine, adv. 1. Finely; well; elegantly; fully; delicately; mincingly. [Obs., Dial., or Colloq.] 2. (Billiards & Pool) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be deflected but little, the object ball being driven to one side.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fine Fine (f[imac]n), v. i. To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale will fine; the weather fined. To fine away, down, off, gradually to become fine; to diminish; to dwindle. I watched her [the ship] . . . gradually fining down in the westward until I lost of her hull. --W. C. Russel.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fine Fine, a. [Compar. Finer; superl. Finest.] [F. fin, LL. finus fine, pure, fr. L. finire to finish; cf. finitus, p. p., finished, completed (hence the sense accomplished, perfect.) See Finish, and cf. Finite.] 1. Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful. The gain thereof [is better] than fine gold. --Prov. iii. 14. A cup of wine that's brisk and fine. --Shak. Not only the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest scholars. --Felton. To soothe the sick bed of so fine a being [Keats]. --Leigh Hunt. 2. Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy. He gratified them with occasional . . . fine writing. --M. Arnold. 3. Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! --Pope. The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery. --Dryden. He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman. --T. Gray. 4. Not coarse, gross, or heavy; as: (a) Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous. The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser. --Bacon. (b) Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour. (c) Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread. (d) Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge. (e) Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk. 5. Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine. 6. (Used ironically.) Ye have made a fine hand, fellows. --Shak. Note: Fine is often compounded with participles and adjectives, modifying them adverbially; a, fine-drawn, fine-featured, fine-grained, fine-spoken, fine-spun, etc. Fine arch (Glass Making), the smaller fritting furnace of a glasshouse. --Knight. Fine arts. See the Note under Art. Fine cut, fine cut tobacco; a kind of chewing tobacco cut up into shreds. Fine goods, woven fabrics of fine texture and quality. --McElrath. Fine stuff, lime, or a mixture of lime, plaster, etc., used as material for the finishing coat in plastering. To sail fine (Naut.), to sail as close to the wind as possible. Syn: Fine, Beautiful. Usage: When used as a word of praise, fine (being opposed to coarse) denotes no ``ordinary thing of its kind.'' It is not as strong as beautiful, in reference to the single attribute implied in the latter term; but when we speak of a fine woman, we include a greater variety of particulars, viz., all the qualities which become a woman, -- breeding, sentiment, tact, etc. The term is equally comprehensive when we speak of a fine garden, landscape, horse, poem, etc.; and, though applied to a great variety of objects, the word has still a very definite sense, denoting a high degree of characteristic excellence.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fine Fine, v. t. [From Fine, n.] To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fine Fine, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fined; p. pr. & vb. n. Fining.] [From Fine, a.] 1. To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold. It hath been fined and refined by . . . learned men. --Hobbes. 2. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil. --L. H. Bailey. 3. To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually. I often sate at home On evenings, watching how they fined themselves With gradual conscience to a perfect night. --Browning.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fine Fine, n. [OE. fin, L. finis end, also in LL., a final agreement or concord between the lord and his vassal; a sum of money paid at the end, so as to make an end of a transaction, suit, or prosecution; mulct; penalty; cf. OF. fin end, settlement, F. fin end. See Finish, and cf. Finance.] 1. End; conclusion; termination; extinction. [Obs.] ``To see their fatal fine.'' --Spenser. Is this the fine of his fines? --Shak. 2. A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct. 3. (Law) (a) (Feudal Law) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal. --Spelman. (b) (Eng. Law) A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease. Fine for alienation (Feudal Law), a sum of money paid to the lord by a tenant whenever he had occasion to make over his land to another. --Burrill. Fine of lands, a species of conveyance in the form of a fictitious suit compromised or terminated by the acknowledgment of the previous owner that such land was the right of the other party. --Burrill. See Concord, n., 4. In fine, in conclusion; by way of termination or summing up.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fine Fine, v. i. To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b) . [R.] Men fined for the king's good will; or that he would remit his anger; women fined for leave to marry. --Hallam.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Fine Fine, v. t. & i. [OF. finer, F. finir. See Finish, v. t.] To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease. [Obs.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

I. ADJECTIVE USES (finer, finest) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. You use fine to describe something that you admire and think is very good. There is a fine view of the countryside... This is a fine book. ...London's finest art deco cinema. ADJ: usu ADJ n • finely They are finely engineered boats. ADV: ADV -ed 2. If you say that you are fine, you mean that you are in good health or reasonably happy. Lina is fine and sends you her love and best wishes. ADJ: v-link ADJ 3. If you say that something is fine, you mean that it is satisfactory or acceptable. The skiing is fine... Everything was going to be just fine... It's fine to ask questions as we go along, but it's better if you wait until we have finished. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, oft it v-link ADJ to-inf • Fine is also an adverb. All the instruments are working fine. ADV 4. You say 'fine' or 'that's fine' to show that you do not object to an arrangement, action, or situation that has been suggested. If competition is the best way to achieve it, then, fine... If you don't want to give it to me, that's fine, I don't mind... CONVENTION [formulae] 5. Something that is fine is very delicate, narrow, or small. The heat scorched the fine hairs on her arms... ? coarse ADJ: usu ADJ n • finely Chop the ingredients finely and mix them together. ? coarsely ADV: ADV with v 6. Fine objects or clothing are of good quality, delicate, and expensive. We waited in our fine clothes... ADJ: usu ADJ n 7. A fine detail or distinction is very delicate, small, or exact. The market likes the broad outline but is reserving judgment on the fine detail. ADJ: usu ADJ n • finely They had to take the finely balanced decision to let the visit proceed... ADV: usu ADV -ed, also ADV after v • fineness ...a sense of quality and fineness of detail. N-UNCOUNT: oft N of n 8. A fine person is someone you consider good, moral, and worth admiring. He was an excellent journalist and a very fine man. ADJ: usu ADJ n [approval] 9. When the weather is fine, the sun is shining and it is not raining. He might be doing a spot of gardening if the weather is fine. ADJ II. PUNISHMENT (fines, fining, fined) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. A fine is a punishment in which a person is ordered to pay a sum of money because they have done something illegal or broken a rule. N-COUNT 2. If someone is fined, they are punished by being ordered to pay a sum of money because they have done something illegal or broken a rule. She was fined £300 and banned from driving for one month... An east London school has set a precedent by fining pupils who break the rules. VERB: be V-ed, V n

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

fin (adj., from Latin finire, "to finish"):

Indicates superior quality. Only in a few instances does "fine" represent a separate word: (1) Tobh, "good," qualifies gold (2Ch 3:5,8, "fine gold"; compare Ge 2:12, "good"); fine gold (La 4:1, the King James Version "most fine gold," the Revised Version (British and American) "most pure gold," literally, "good fine gold"), copper (Ezr 8:27, the Revised Version (British and American) "fine bright brass"); Tabh, Aramaic (Da 2:32, "fine gold"). (2) paz, "refined" (So 5:11, "the most fine gold"). (3) chelebh, "fatness," "the best of any kind"; compare Ge 45:18; De 32:14, etc. (Ps 81:16, "the finest of the wheat," the Revised Version, margin Hebrew "fat of wheat"). (4) sariq, "fine combed" (Isa 19:9, "fine flax," the Revised Version (British and American) "combed flax").

In other places it expresses a quality of the substantive: kethem, "fine gold" (Job 31:24; Da 10:5, the Revised Version (British and American) "pure gold"); paz, used as a noun for refined gold (Job 28:17; Ps 19:10; Pr 8:19; Isa 13:12; La 4:2); charuts, "fine gold" (Pr 3:14; compare Ps 68:13, "yellow gold"); coleth, "flour," rendered "fine flour," rolled or crushed small (Le 2:1,4,5,7, etc.); semidalis, "the finest wheaten flour" (Re 18:13); qemach coleth, "fine meal" (Ge 18:6); cadhin, "linen garment" (Septuagint sindon, Pr 31:24 the King James Version; Isa 3:23); shesh, "white," "fine linen" (Ge 41:42; Ex 25:4, etc.); in Pr 31:22 the King James Version has "silk"; sheshi (Eze 16:13, "fine flour"); 'eTun, "what is twisted or spun," "yarn" (Pr 7:16 the King James Version, "fine linen of Egypt" the Revised Version (British and American) "yarn of Egypt"); buts, "fine white cloth," "cotton or linen," "fine linen" (1Ch 4:21; Eze 27:16, etc.; 2Ch 5:12, King James Version "white," the Revised Version (British and American) "fine"); bussos, "byssus," "linen" from buts Septuagint for which, 2Ch 2:14; 3:14), deemed very fine and precious, worn only by the rich (Lu 16:19; Re 18:12); bussinos, "byssine" made of fine linen, Septuagint for buts (1Ch 5:27) (Re 18:16, "clothed in fine linen," the Revised Version (British and American) "arrayed," Re 19:8,14); sindon, "fine linen" (Mr 5:46, "He bought fine linen," the Revised Version (British and American) "a linen cloth"; compare Mr 14:51,52; Mt 27:59; Lu 23:53); it was used for wrapping the body at night, also for wrapping round dead bodies; sindon is Septuagint for cadhin (Jud 14:12,13; Pr 31:24); chalkolibanon (Re 1:15; 2:18, the King James Version "fine brass").

The meaning of this word has been much discussed; chalkos is "brass" in Greek (with many compounds), and libanos is the Septuagint for lebhonah, "frankincense," which word was probably derived from the root labhan, "to burn"; this would give glowing brass, "as if they burned in a furnace"; in Da 10:6 it is nehosheth qalal, the King James Version "polished brass," the Revised Version (British and American) "burnished" (qalal is "to glow"). Plumptre deemed it a hybrid word composed of the Greek chalkos, "brass," and the Hebrew labhan, "white," a technical word, such as might be familiar to the Ephesians; the Revised Version (British and American) has "burnished brass"; Weymouth, "silver-bronze when it is white-hot in a furnace"; the whiteness being expressed by the second half of the Greek word. See Thayer's Lexicon (s.v.).

In Apocrypha we have "fine linen," bussinos (1 Esdras 3:6), "fine bread"; the adjective katharos, separate ( /APC Judith 10:5, the Revised Version, margin "pure bread"); "fine flour" (Ecclesiasticus 35:2; 38:11); semidalis (Bel and the Dragon verse 3; /APC 2Macc 1:8, the Revised Version (British and American) "meal offering").

W. L. Walker

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. a. 1. Minute, small, little, comminuted. 2. Slender, delicate, capillary. 3. Light, of delicate material, of fine texture. 4. Keen, sharp. 5. Thin, subtile, tenuous, attenuated. 6. Exquisite, nice, refined. 7. Excellent, superior, very good. 8. Brilliant, accomplished. 9. Beautiful, handsome, splendid, elegant. 10. Clear, pure, unadulterated. 11. [As a term of slight contempt.] Showy, garish, gay, flashy, airy, sparkish, stilted. II. n. Mulct, amercement, forfeit, forfeiture, pecuniary penalty. III. v. a. 1. Defecate, purify, refine. 2. Amerce, mulct, impose a fine upon, punish by a fine.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Fine as five pence. Fine as a cow-t--d stuck with primroses.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A man imprisoned for any offence. A fine of eighty- four months; a transportation for seven years.

Moby Thesaurus

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