finch 
1783. Yellow-throated finch, the common black- 
throated bunting of the Tinted State*, .^///^r omtfrioana. 
Latham ; Pennant. (See also beech-finch, bitckfiiich, ca- 
iHti'ti-fiiicli, hati'finch, etc.) 
finch-t, *' An obsolete contracted form of 
finixlt. 
fin-chain (fin'chan), n. In wlialing, a heavy 
chain, about 15 feet long, with a large triangu- 
lar loose link or ring at one end and a small 
ring at the other, used for raising the fin and 
the head of the first blanket-piece from a whale. 
Some fin-chains have a loose ring shackled to 
them for the blubber-hook. 
finch-backed (finch'bakt), a. Striped or spotted 
on the back, as cattle : in allusion to the varie- 
gated plumage of the finch. [Prov. Eng.] 
finched(fincht), a. [< finchl + -ed 2 .] Same as 
finch-backed. 
finch-falcon (finch'fa'kn), n. See falcon. 
finch-tanager (finch'tau*a-jer), n. One of the 
conirostraltanagers, such as those of the genus 
Habia. 
fincklet, n. Seefinkle. 
find (find), . ; pret. and pp. found, ppr. find- 
ing. [< ME.finden (pret.f and, fond, pi. faunae, 
founden, pp. founde, founden), < AS. findan 
(pret.fand, pl.funden, pp. funden) = OS. findan, 
fidltan = OFries. finda = D. vinden = MLG. vin- 
den, LG. finnen = OHG. findan, MHG. G. fin- 
den = Icel. finna = Sw. finna = Dan. finde = 
Goth.finthan, find. Connection with L. petere, 
seek after, go to, fall upon, is doubtful: see 
compete, petition. Remotely connected with 
feeze 1 and /, q. v.] I. trans. 1. To discover 
by sight or feeling; come or light upon, either 
by seeking or unexpectedly ; encounter or meet 
with for the first time. 
The first Day next aftre, Men fynden in the Askes a 
Worm. Mandeeille, Travels, p. 48. 
Which Seynt Elyne jfond the Crosse at Jherusalem. 
Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 10. 
Phalec and Heber, as they wandred, fand 
A huge high Pillar, which vpright did stand. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Columnes. 
Oh that I knew where I might find him ! that I might 
come even to his seat ! Job xxiii. 3. 
2. To discover by methodical means ; ascer- 
tain or make out by systematic exploration, 
trial, or study : as, to find bottom by sounding ; 
to find a bullet in a wound by probing; an 
effort to find the philosopher's stone ; to find 
one's way in the dark; to find the answer to a 
problem. 
If your leisure suffer it, I pray./wd whether I be in him 
[Mr. Fowler] still, and conserve me in his love. 
Donne, Letters, viii. 
But in short, Mr. Coventry found a Customer, and they 
found means to get it [opium] ashore, while the Soldiers 
of the Fort were at dinner. Dampier, Voyages, II. i. 166. 
As I really think continually of such a journey, I name 
it now and then ; though I don't And how to accomplish 
it. Walpole, Letters, II. 98. 
3f. To discover the use of, or the way to make 
or use ; invent ; devise. 
He fond tentes first, but if men lye. 
Chaucer, Anelida and Arcite, 1. 154. 
4. To discover or ascertain by experience; 
learn from observation or sensation: as, the 
climate was found to be unpropitious ; to find 
a friend in a supposed enemy. 
' ' I have, " quod he, "founde yow bothe trew and kynde. " 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1012. 
Corah and his company . . . will be found to be the 
first assertors of this kind of Liberty that ever were in the 
world. Stillingjteet, Sermons, I. vii. 
I find a man may have a deal of valour in him, and not 
know it ! Sheridan, The Rivals, iii. 4. 
In Egypt, fish which have not scales are generally found 
to be unwholesome food. 
E. W. Lane, Modern Egyptians, I. 114, note. 
We shall leave this abstract question, and look at the 
world as we find it. 
Macaulai/, Gladstone on Church and State. 
6. To succeed in attaining; gain by effort : as, 
to find leisure for a visit ; to find safety in flight. 
Take god hede to this matere, 
And/i/?td to lerne it yff ge canne. 
Boo/re of Precedence (E. E. T. S., extra ser.), i. 52. 
I will go sit and weep, 
Till I can find occasion for revenge. 
Shah., T. of the S., ii. 1. 
6. To come to or into by natural causes or by 
force of circumstances; arrive at; reach: as, 
water finds its level; the picture found its way 
to the auction-room. 
He past the foaming seas, 
And finde* the pleasant porte. 
Gascoifliie, Philomene (ed. Arber), p. 93. 
Glorious deeds done to ambitious ends find reward an- 
swerable, not to their outward seeming, but to their in- 
ward ambition. Milton, Eikonoklastes, viii. 
None want a place, for all their centre found, 
Hung to the goddess, and cohered around. 
Pope, Dunciad, iv. 77. 
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7. To detect; catch: commonly with out. See 
to find out, below. 
findjan 
The tomljs of Tanagra have yielded by far the richest 
finds of these [tcrra-cotta] figures, the specimens being 
very remarkable for their beauty. 
Encyc. Brit., XXIII. 191. 
The system of signals (probably by use of the nntenmr) 
by which ants tell each other of a precioiu^fnd is perhaps 
the most rudimentary type of language. Science, VII. 555. 
[< find + -aft/e.] Ca- 
8. In law, to determine after judicial inquiry: 
as, the jury found him guilty; to find a verdict 
for the plaintiff. 
Make her grave straight ; the crowner hath sate on her, 
and .///u( it Christian burial. Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 
If we were cited at that tribunal of truth, we should be 
found guilty. Burton, Auat. of Mel., p. 194. 
In behalf of the Nose it will quickly appear, 
And your lordship, he said, will undoubtedly/nd, 
That the Nose has had spectacles always in wear, 
Which amounts to possession time out of mind. 
Counter, Report on an Adjudged Case. 
9. To supply ; provide ; furnish : as, to find 
money or provisions for an expedition. 
Now lak I good where with I shuld you fynd. 
Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 1013. 
Euerycraftehavynge the name of pageant shullen/ynde 
oon cresset yerly brennynge, to be born biforn the Bail- 
lies of the seid cite. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 408. 
Our wages are sometimes a little in arrear and not 
very great either but fifty pounds a year, and find our 
own bags and bouquets. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, iii. 2. 
10. To support; maintain; provide for: fol- 
lowed by the direct object of the person (often 
reflexive), with in, formerly also with, before 
the thing provided : as, to receive ten dollars a 
week a.a<ifind one's self. 
By housbondrye of such as God hire sente, 
Srlir /"/jr/ hireself and eek hire doughtren two. 
Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 9. 
A poor layman, having a wife and twenty children, and 
not able to find them, etc. 
Tyndale, Aus. to Sir T. More, etc. (Parker Soc., 1850), p. 76. 
He that shall marry thee had better spend the poor re- 
mainder of his days in a dung-barge, for twopence a week, 
And find himself. Beau, and /'/.. Woman-Hater, iii. 1. 
The state . . . promising for itself that all able-bodied 
men should be found in work. Froude, Sketches, p. 170. 
lit. To compose; set in order; arrange. 
He drew him to the fere, 
And took a light, and fond his contenaunce, 
As for to looke upon an old romaunce. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 980. 
12. To reach home to ; take the fancy of ; ap- 
peal to the taste or liking of. [Colloq.] 
A subtlety of perception in appreciating genius, and a 
generous enthusiasm for what rirufc him, are more charac- 
teristic of Lamb's criticism than width. 
Athenaeum, No. 3154, p. 427. 
Office found, in late. See office. To find ball, to find 
bones in, to find fault, to find In the heart. See 
the nouns. To find one's account in anything, to find 
it advantageous or profitable. [A Gallicism.] To find 
One's feet or legs, to rise upon one's feet or legs ; get 
or recover the use of them. 
Well, sir, we must have you [an alleged cripple] find 
your legs. Sirrah beadle, whip him till he leap over that 
same stool. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., ii. 1. 
To find one's self, (a) To feel ; fare in regard to ease or 
pain, health or sickness ; do : as, how do you find your- 
self this morning? [Compare the equivalent German uric 
befinden rie sich? a common formula.] (6) See def. 10. 
To find out, to discover by search or observation ; at- 
tain to a knowledge or understanding of; detect; solve ; 
fathom. 
Canst thou by searching find out God ? Job ii. 7. 
And what madness, what wickedness is it then, to pry 
curiously into those arcana of Providence, which we can 
never find out, and which were hidden from us on pur- 
pose that we might not find them ow( / 
Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. xxii. 
I have/oiind him out a long time since. 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, i. 1. 
He, however, who gains access to cabinets, soon finds 
out by what foolishness the world is governed. 
Irviny, Knickerbocker, p. 400. 
To find the bean In the cake. See beani. 
H. intrans. In law, to determine an issue 
after judicial inquiry; direct judgment on the 
merits or facts of a case : as, the jury finds for 
the plaintiff. 
The case seeming doubtful to the jury, they judged it 
safest in case of life to find as they did. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 306. 
find (find), n. [(.find, .] A discovery of some- 
thing valuable ; the thing found : as, a find in 
the gold-fields ; finds of prehistoric tools. The 
use of find as a noun has become common only since its 
application in recent times to discoveries of arcmeological 
remains. 
For the ./Snds made in North America anotherepoch . . . 
has to be presumed. Ainer. Cyc., VII. 197. 
Specimens were among the find of coins at High Wy- 
conibe in 1827. Emm, Coins of Ancient Britons, p. 78. 
The Paris Figaro announces a find of letters by Beau- 
marchais. The American, VII. 220. 
findable (fm'da-bl), a. 
pable of being found. 
Such persons . . . have nothing more to be said of them 
findable by all my endevours. Fuller, Worthies, xxv. 
A man's ideal 
Is high in Heaven, and lodged with Plato's God, 
Hot findable here. Tennyson, The Sisters (No. 2). 
finder (fin'der), H. [< ME. finder, fynder (= D. 
vinder = MLG. finder = G. finder = Dan. fin- 
der); < find + -er 1 .] One who or that which 
finds or discovers. Specifically (a) One who finds 
or determines after search or inquiry. 
We will bring the device to the bar, and crown thee for 
* finder of madmen. Shak., T. N., iii. 4. 
(&t) An inventor, deviser, or originator. 
But Grekes seyn Pictagoras, 
That he the flrste fynder was 
Of the arte [of music]. 
Chaucer, Death of Blanche, 1. 1168. 
(ct) A poet. 
A poet [Chaucer], . . . the first finder of our fair lan- 
guage. Occleve. 
(d) In the customs, a searcher employed to discover goods 
imported or exported without paying custom, (e) A small- 
er telescope attached to a larger, for the purpose of find- 
ing an object more readily. 
This instrument was mounted on the same set of axes 
with the twenty-eight inch Cassegrain mirror, as were also 
& finder of five inches aperture, and one of two inches. 
Science, III. 726. 
Then by his finder, a little telescope set by the side of 
his large one and embracing a large field of view in the 
sky, he points the telescope aright. 
Set. Amer., N. S., LIV. 21. 
(/) An extra lens or other device attached to a photo- 
graphic camera for the purpose of showing on a small 
supplementary ground glass, or otherwise, the position of 
the picture in the field of the sensitized plate: used in cam- 
eras for making instantaneous pictures, (g) A micro- 
scopic slide divided by fine lines into a number of minute 
squares, used to locate exactly any point of especial inter- 
est in the field of the microscope. By noting the square 
which covers the point in question, the observer is en- 
abled to bring it at once into view, 
findfaultt (find'falt), . [<find,v.,+ obj./M.] 
A faultfinder. 
We are the makers of manners, Kate ; and the lilrerty 
that follows our places stops the mouths of alt find-faults. 
Shak., Hen. V., v. 2. 
findfaultingt (find'fal"ting), a. [<findfault; or 
rather a transposition of faultfinding.] Fault- 
finding. 
She doth not set business back by unquiet branglings 
and find-faulting quarrels. 
Whitlock, Manners of Eng. People (1654), p. 347. 
finding (fin'ding), n. [< ME. finding (= OHG. 
findunga, MHG. vindung, G. findung) ; verbal 
n. of find, '.] 1. The act of discovering or as- 
certaining; discovery. 
The most constant finding, in this analysis, relates to 
analgesia. Alien, and Neurol., VI. 402. 
2. Thatwhichis found byobservationorsearch; 
especially, in law, a statement of a conclusion 
arrived at by the judicial trial of an issue. 
Go you the next way with yourfindinqa [a ohild). 
Snak., W. T., iii. 3. 
With the physiological machinery I am not concenied, 
except to say that I should welcome with humble thank- 
fulness any kind of finding from a jury of physiologists, 
if it confined itself to physiology. 
F. H. Bradley, Mind, XIII. 28. 
3f. That which is provided for one's support or 
maintenance; expense. 
Thus this sweete clerk his tyme spente, 
After his freudes fyndyng and his rente. 
Chaucer, Miller's Tale, 1. 34. 
Yong gentlemen at their fryndes fyndinff in my lords 
house for the hoole yere. Babees Bo\>k(&. E. T. S.), p. x. 
4. pi. The tools, appliances, and materials which 
some workmen have to furnish in their employ- 
ment, particularly those used by shoemakers ; 
hence, in the United States, shoemakers' sup- 
plies in general, excepting leather: as, leather 
and findings.- Distributive finding of the Issue, 
in law. See distributive. 
finding-list (fin'ding-list), n. A list or cata- 
logue of the books in a library without any de- 
scription as to contents, date of publication, 
size of volume, etc. 
finding-store (fin'ding-stor), n. A shop where 
shoemakers' tools, appliances, etc., are sold: 
called in England a grindery warehouse. [U. S.] 
findjan, fingian (fin'jan, fin'jian), n. A small, 
thin porcelain coffee-cup, almost semi-spheri- 
cal in shape, used in Turkey and Egypt. It is 
placed in a holder called the zarf (which see). 
The abbot and I, and another holy father, fraternised, 
and slapped each other on the back, and had another 
