Conclusive; decisive. There be many examples where sea-fights have been final to the war. Bacon. Henry spent his reign in establishing himself, and had neither leisure nor opportunity to undertake the final conquest of Ireland. 3. Mortal; destructive. Davies. At last resolv'd to work his final smart, He lifted up his hand, but back again did start. Spenser's Fairy Queen. + Respecting the end or motive. Some things in such sort are allowed, that they be also required as necessary unto salvation, by way of direct, immediate, and proper petesity final; so that, without performance of them, they cannot by ordinary course be saved, nor by any means be excluded from life, observing them. Hooker. By its gravity air raises the water in pumps, siphons, and other engines; and performs all those feats which former philosophers, through ignorance of the efficient cause, attributed to a find, namely, nature's abhorrence of a vacuity. Ray. Your answering in the final cause, makes me believe you are at a loss for the efficient. FINALLY. adv. [from final.] Collier. So airy and so vain! 1. Ultimately; lastly; in conclusion. Sight bereav'd May chance to number thee with those Whom patience finally must crown. 2. Completely; without recovery. Milton. Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed, or finally rooted out by the hand of justice, but the house of Desmond only. Davies on Ireland. Doubtlessly many men are finally lost, who yet have no men's sins to answer for but their South. mills. Dict. FINCH. n. s. [Finc, Saxon.] A small bird of which we have three kinds, the goldfinch, chaffinch, and bulfinch. TO FIND. v. a. [Findan, Saxon; vinden, Dutch.] 1. To obtain by searching or seeking. Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find. Whereas thou hast searched all my stuif, what Matthew. hast thou found of all the household stuff? Gen. She disappear'd, and left me dark; I wak'd To find her, or for ever to deplore Her loss. A bird that flies about, And beats itself against the cage, Milton Dodsley. Pope. Cowley. Cowley. The torrid zone is now found habitable. 6. To come to; to attain. 7. The sun that barren shines, Whose virtue on itself works no effect Milton. To discover by study, or attention. The fox that first this cause of grief did find, 'Gan first thus plain his case with words unkind. Hubberd's Tale. Physicians With sharpen'd sight some remedies may find. Brydem Corley Corley. Thy maid! ah, find some nobler theme, Whereon thy doubts to place. 8. To discover what is hidden. A curse on him who found the oar. 9. To hit on by chance; to perceive by accident. They build on sands, which if unmov'd they find, 'Tis but because there was no wind. Cowley10. To gain by any mental endeavour. I by conversing cannot these erect From prone, nor in their ways complacence find. Milton. If we for happiness could leisure find, And wand'ring time into a method bind, We should not then the great mens favour need. Cowley We oft review, each finding like a friend Something to blame, and something to commend. Pope. 11. To remark; to observe; to perceive. Thus far to try thee, Adam, I was pleas'd, And find thee knowing not of beast alone, Which thou hast rightly nam'd, but of thyself. Milton. Corley. Beauty of wit in all I find. 12. To detect; to deprehend; to catch. When first found in a lie, talk to him of it as a strange monstrous matter, and so shame him out of it. Locke, 13. To reach; to attain. They are glad when then can find the grave, Job. There are agents in nature able to make the particles of bodies stick together by very strong attractions, and it is the business of experimental philosophy to find them out. Nervton. What hinders then, but that you find her out, And hurry her away by manly force? Addison. 22. TO FIND out. To obtain the knowledge of. The principal part of painting is to find out, and thoroughly to understand, what nature has made most beautiful. Dryden. 3. To FIND out. To invent; to excogitate. A man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and to find out every device which shall be put to him. 25. To FIND, is a word of very licentious and capricious use, not easily limited or explained; its first idea is the consequence of search; the second, equally frequent, is mere occursion. FINDER. n. s. [from find.] 1. One that meets or falls upon any thing. We will bring the device to the bar, and crown thee for a finder of madmen. Shaksp. 2. One that picks up any thing lost. Some lew'd squeaking cryer, May gall the finder's conscience, if they meet. O yes! if any happy eye Denne. Crashaw. . s. [find and fault.] A censurer; a caviller.. We are the makers of manners, Kate; and the liberty that follows our places, stops the mouths of all findfaults. Sbaksp. FINDY. adj. [Fyndig, Saxon.] Plump; weighty; firm; solid. Not used. Thus the proverb, A cold May and a windy, Makes the barn fat and findy; means, that it stores the barn with plump and firm grain. Junies. FINE. adj. [finne, French; fijn, Dutch and Erse; perhaps from finitus, completed, Latin.] 1. Not coarse. 5. Keen; thin; smoothly sharp. 2 Chronicles. Great affairs are commonly too rough and stubborn to be wrought upon by the finer edges or points of wit. 24. The particle out is added often without any other use than that it adds some force or emphasis to the verb. While she proudly march'd about, Corvley. It is agreeable to compare the face of a great man with the character, and to try if we can find out in his looks and features either the haughty, cruel, or merciful temper. Addison. He was afraid of being insulted with Greek; for which reason he desired a friend to find him cut a clergyman rather of plain sense than much 2carning. Addison's Spectator. Bacos. 6. Clear; pellucid; transparent: as, the wine is fine. Let the wine without mixture or stum be all fine, Or call up the master. 7. Nice; exquisite; delicate. Are they not senseless then, that think the soul Nought but a fine perfection of the sense? Davies. The irons of planes are set fine or rank; they It is with a fine genius as with a fine fashion; all those are displeased at it who are not able to follow it. Pope. 3. The satirical part of mankind will needs believe, that it is not impossible to be very fine and very filthy. Swift. 14. [Ironically.] Something that will serve the purpose; something worth contemptuous notice. That same knave, Ford, her husband, hath the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, master Brook, that ever governed frenzy. Shaksp. They taught us, indeed, to cloath, to dwell in houses, To feast, to sleep on down, to be profuse: 1. A mulct; a pecuniary punishment. Ev'n this ill night your breathing shall expire, Paying the fine of rated treachery. Shaksp. 3. Forfeit; money paid for any exemption or liberty. The spirit of wantonness is sure scared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, in the way of waste, attempt us again. Shaksp Besides fines set upon plays, games, balls, and feasting, they have many customs which contribute to their simplicity. Addison. How vain that second life in other breath, Th' estate which wits inherit after death! Ease, health, and life, for this they must resign, Unsure the tenure, but how vast the fine! Pope. 4[from finis, Latin; fin, enfin, French.] The end; conclusion. It is seldom used but adverbially, in fine. To conclude to sum up all; to tell all at once. In fine, whatsoever he was, he was nothing but what it pleased Zelmane, the powers of his spirit depending of her. 4. Hugh Capet, also, who usurp'd the crown, To fine his title with some shews of truth, Convey'd himself as heir to th' lady Lingare. Shakspeare's Henry. To make less coarse. It fines the grass, but makes it short, though thick. Mortimer. To make transparent. It is good also for fuel, not to omit the shayings of it for the fining of wine. 5. [from the substantive.] Mortimer. To punish To fine men one third of their fortune, with- What poet ever fin'd for sheriff? or who To FINEDRA ́W. v. a. [fine and draw.} The most finefinger'd workman on the ground, Plutarch says very finely, that a man should not allow himself to hate even his enemies; because if you indulge this passion on some occasions, it will rise of itself in others. Addison. The walls are painted, and represent the labours of Hercules: many of them look very finely, though a great part of the work has been cracked. Addison on Italy. 2. Keenly; sharply; with a thin edge or point. Get you black lead, sharpened finely. Peacham. Sidney. 3. Not coarsely; not meanly; gayly. His resolution, in fine, is, that in the church a number of things are strictly observed, whereof no law of scripture maketh mention one way or other, Hooker, 4. Purity; freedom from dross or base mixtures. Our works are, indeed, nought else But the protactive tryals of great Jove, To find persistive constancy in men; The fineness of which metal is not found In fortune's love. Shaksp. I am doubtful whether men have sufficiently refined metals; as whether iron, brass, and tin be refined to the height: but when they come to such a fineness as serveth the ordinary use, they try no farther. Bacon's Nat. Hist. The ancients were careful to coin their money in due weight and fineness; only in times of exigence they have diminished both the weight and fineness. Arbuthnot on Coins. FINER. n. s. [from fine.] One who purifies metals. Take away the dross from the silver, and there shall come forth a vessel for the finer. Proverbs. FINERY. n. s. [from fine.] Show splendour of appearance; gayety of colours. Southern. Dress up your houses and your images, And put on all the city's finery, To consecrate this day a festival. The capacities of a lady are sometimes apt to fall short in cultivating cleanliness and finery together. Savift. Don't chuse your place of study by the finery of the prospects, or the most various scenes of sensible things. Walls. They want to grow rich in their trades, and to maintain their families in come such figure Ray A hand of a vast extension, and a prodigious number of fingers playing upon all the organ pipes of the world, and making every one sound a particular note. Keil against Burnet. Poor Peg sewed, spun, and knit for a liveli hood, 'till her finger ends were sore. Arbytb. 2. A small measure of extension; the breadth of a finger. Go now, go trust the wind's uncertain breath, Remov'd four fingers from approaching death; Or seven at most, when thickest is the board. Dryden's Juvenal One of these bows with a little arrow did pierce through a piece of steel three fingers thick. Wilkins' Math. Mag. 3. The hand; the instrument of work; manufacture; art. Waller Fool, that forgets her stubborn look, This softness from thy finger took. To FINGER. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To touch lightly; to toy with. Go, get you gone, and let the papers lie; You would be fingering them to anger me. Shakspeare One that is covetous is not so highly pleased with the meer sight and fingering of money, as with the thoughts of his being considered as a wealthy man. Grew's Cosmol. Sacra. 2. To touch unseasonably or thievishly; His ambition would needs be fingering the sceptre, and hoisting him into his father's throne. South's Sermons. 3. To touch an instrument of musick. She hath broke the lute; 4. I did but tell her she mistook her frets, To perform any work exquisitely with Not any skill'd in loops of fingering fine, With this so curious net-work might compare. Spenser. FINGER-FERN. n. s. [finger and fern; asplenum, Latin.] A plant. FINGER-STONE. n. 5. finger and stone; telenites, Latin.] A fossil resembling an arrow. and degree of finery, as a reasonable christian FINGLEFANGLE. 7. S. [from fangle.] life has no occasion for. Law. FINE'SSE. n. s. [French.] Artifice; stratagem: an unnecessary word which is creeping into the language. A trifle: a burlesque word. We agree in nothing but to wrangle About the slightest fingle-fangle. FINICAL. adj. [from fina.] Nice; fop pish; pretending to superfluous elegance. A whoreson, glassglazing, superserviceable, finical rogue. Shaksp. King Lear. I cannot hear a finical fop romancing, how the king took him aside at such a time; what the queen said to him at another. L'Estrange. FINICALLY. adv. [from finical.] Foppishly. FINICALNESS. . . [from finical.] Superfluous nicety; foppery. T FINISH. v. a. [finir, French; finio, Latin.] 1. To bring to the end proposed; to complete. For which of you, intending to build a tower, sitteth not down first and counteth the cost, whether he have sufficient to finish it? Luke. As he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace. 2 Corinthians. 2. To make perfect. A poet uses episodes; but episodes, taken separately, finish nothing. Broome on the Odyssey. 3. To perfect; to polish to the excellency intended. Though here you all perfection should not Yet is it all th' Eternal Will design'd; I would make what bears your name as finishBlackmore. ed as my last work ought to be; that is, more feisbed than the rest. 4 To end; to put an end to. Pope. Shaks. I ought now to unbay the current of my passion, and love without other boundary than what is set by the finiteness of my natural powers. Norris. FINITUDE. n. s. [from finite.] Limitation; confinement within certain boundaries. This is hardly an authorized word. This was the condition of those times; the world against Athanasius, and Athanasius against half an hundred years spent in doubtful trials which of the two, in the end, would preval; the side which had all, or else that part which had no friend but God and death, the. one a defender of his innocency, the other a fiber of all his troubles. Hooker. 3. One that completes or perfects. Heb. Milton's Par. Lost. FINITE. adj. [finitus, Lat.] Limited; terminated. bounded; Servius conceives no more thereby than a finite number for indefinite. Finite of any magnitude holds not any proBrown. portion to infinite. Locke. That supposed infinite duration, will, by the very supposition, be limited at two extremes, though never so remote asunder, and consequently must needs be finite. FINITELESS. adj. [from finite.] WithBentley. out bounds; unlimited. Finitude, applied to natural or created things, imports the proportions of the several degrees of affections, or properties of these things to one another; infinitude, the unboundedness of these degrees of affections, or properties. Gbeyne. FINLESS adj. [from fin.] Wanting fins. He angers me It is ridiculous unto reason, and finiteless as their desires. Brown's Vul. Err. With telling of the moldwarp and the ant, And of a dragon and a finless fish. Shaksp. FINLIKE. adj. [fin and like.] Formed in imitation of fins. In shipping such as this, the Irish kern And untaught Indian on the stream did glide; Ere sharp-keel'd boats to stein the food did learn, Or finlike oars did spread from either side. Dryden. FINNED. adj. [from fin.] Having broad edges spread out on either side. They plough up the turf with a broad finned plough. Mortimer. FINNY. adj. [from fin.] Furnished with fins; formed for the element of water. FINITELY. adv. [from finite.] Within certain limits; to a certain degree. They are creatures still, and that sets them at an infinite distance from God; whereas all their excellencies can make them but finitely distant from us. FINITENESS. n. J. [from finite.] LimiStilling fleet. tation; confinement within certain boundaries. High o'er the main in wat'ry pomp he rides, His azure car and finny coursers guides; Proteus his name. Dryden's Virgil. New herds of beasts he sends the plains to share; New colonies of birds to people air; And to their oozy beds the finny fish repair. Dryden's Ovid. While black with storms the ruffled ocean, roils, And from the fisher's art defends her finny sholes. Blackmore. With hairy springes we the birds betray; Slight lines or hair surprize the finny prey. Pope. FINTOED. adj. [fin and toe.] Palmipedous; having a membrane between the toes. Such creatures as are whole footed, or finloed, viz. some birds and quadrupeds, are naturally directed to go into the water, and swim there. Ray. FINOCHIO. n. s. A species of fennel. FIPPLE. n. s. [from fibula, Latin.] A stopper.] You must know, that in recorders, which go with a gentle breath, the concave of the pipe, were it not for the fipple that straitneth the air much more than the simple concave, would yield no sound. Bacon's Nat. Hist. FIR. n. s. [fyrr, Welsh; fuph, Saxon; fyr, Danish.] The tree of which deal boards are made. It is ever green: the leaves are single, and for the most part produced on every side of the branches: the male flowers, cr catkins, are placed at remote distances from the fruit on the same tree. The seeds are propagated on cones, which are squamose. Miller. He covered the floor of the house with planks of fir. 1 Kings. The spiring fir and stately box. /Pope FIRE. . . [rin, Saxon ; feur, Gerni.] |