finically 
finically (fin'i-kal-i), ndr. In a finical man- 
ner; with extreme or affected nicety. Sniln/, 
1727. 
flnicalness (fiu'i-kal-nes), . The quality of 
being finical; extreme nicety in dress, man- 
ners, or style ; foppishness ; fastidiousness. 
Nor hail lirilwlin any thins; f greatness in his manner 
or capacity. His works have no nmre merit than finical- 
/(..-.>, anil that not in perfection, can give them. 
\f,ilj>uti; Anecdotes of 1'ailitili^, III. 244. 
finicking (fin'i-king), n. [Also fiiinicking; a 
var. of finikin, assuming the form of a verbal 
n. in -I/If/ 1 .] Fussiuesu; fastidious ways. 
The verse laughs at such ftniiirking, anil asserts its true 
division. E. fadnam, Kug. Versification, p. 147. 
Not in stuck-up bowing ami scraping, liimli-kiiin, polite 
iliiailrillisin, hut in stood active dances, that make every 
linih fed pleasant fatigue. 
B. W. Richardson, Pop. Sci. Mo., XXX. 85. 
finicking (fin'i-king), a. [Alsofiiinicking; a var. 
ot finikin, assuming the form of a ppr. in -IM</ 2 .] 
Same as Jin ikin . 
To show off his possessions, . . . with an intended su- 
periority in his mile manliness to anything safinickini/. 
Mrs. Oliphant, Ladies Lindores, p. 55. 
finicky (fin'i-ki), a. [Var. of finikin, assuming 
the form of an adj. in -y^.] Same as finikin. 
[Colloq.] 
finientt, |X L- finieii(l-)*, ppr. of finire, end: 
see finish.] In astrol., the horizon; the finitor. 
finific (fi-nif'ik), a. [< L. finis, end (see Jbte 1 ), 
+ -ficu8, (facere, make.] Rendering limited or 
finite. [Bare.] 
The essential ftmftc in the form of the Unite. Coleridge. 
finified (fin'i-fid), p. a. Made fine; fine in 
dress or affectedly nice in manner; dandyish; 
finical: as, how finified you are ! he has become 
very finified. [Colloq., IT. S.] 
finiry (fiii'i-fi), t'. *. [< fine 2 , , + -i-fy, make.] 
To make fine; adorn. [Obsolete or colloquial.] 
As nimhle a flue fellow of his feet as his hands : for 
there is a nohle corn-cutter, his companion, hath . . . pared 
untljinijud them. B. Jonnon, Pan's Anniversary. 
All the morning he wasteth in finifi/inrj his body to 
please her eye. Man in the Moon, 1809. 
fillikin (fin'i-kin), . and n. [Alsofinnikin and, 
with accom. terminations, finicking, finicky, 
finical; orig. a dial, word, of D. origin ; cf . MD. 
fijnkens, adv., precisely, exactly, neatly, < fijn, 
fine, precise, exact, -f- dim. -ken, E. -kin.] I. a. 
1. Daintily fine ; dainty. 
With that came in a wealthy knight, 
Which was both grave and old, 
And after him a finikin lass, 
Did shine like the glistering gold. 
Jtotin Hood and Allin A Dale (Child's Ballads, V. 281). 
2. Pettily particular ; precise in trifles ; idly 
busy ; especially, particular about dress. 
The bearded creatures are quite as finikin, over their 
toilets as any coquette in the world. Thackeray. 
The mo&tfinnikin of us must needs begrime himself in 
getting forward ever so little a distance. 
Contemporary Ret]., LIV. 33. 
II. n. A sort of pigeon with a crest some- 
what resembling the mane of a horse. 
fining (fi'ning), n. [Verbal n. of fine 2 , .] 1. 
(a) The process of refining or purifying, (ft) 
The process of clarifying wine or other liquor 
by hastening the deposition of floating solid 
matters. 
Both white of egg and gelatine . . . are freely used for 
fining, and . . . wines that have been freely subjected to 
such fining keep better and become dryer with age. 
Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVI. 672. 
2. The process of becoming clear: said espe- 
cially of wine and other liquors. 3. The ma- 
terial or mixture introduced into liquor to clari- 
fy it, as whites of eggs or alum, it is customary 
to mix the fining with a little of the liquor and beat them 
thoroughly together ; the mixture is then poured into the 
cask and the liquor is stirred. 
fining-forge (fi'ning-forj), n. A finery or re- 
heating furnace. 
fining-pot (fi'ning-pot), n. A vessel in which 
metals are refined. 
The fining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold. 
Prov. xvii. 3. 
fining-roller (fi'ning-ro"ler), n. In a paper- 
making machine, a cylindrical sieve of wire 
cloth by which the coarse fibers and knots are 
retained while the finely ground stuff is per- 
mitted to pass through. 
finis (fi'nis), n. [L., the end, limit: see fine 1 , 
jMm.] The end; conclusion : a word occasion- 
ally, and in former times commonly, placed at 
the end of a book. 
finish (fin'ish), v. [< ME. finischcn, finissheii, 
also in contr. ioTm fiiiclien (\ikepunchen, contr. 
of jiuniftslien : see punch- = punish), < OF. fi- 
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finite 
fects the face of plates by cutting out superfluous metal, 
rectifying faults, and correcting errors, for which purpose 
he cuts out the letters or words to he changed and solders 
in separate types or cast pieces, (c) In papfr-maJnag. the 
second rag-pulping machine or half-stuff engine, (d) In 
liiiiiitifnrif-iuiikiwi, the workman who puts the action to- 
gether and fastens it into the case. 
._, , j 2. One who or that which puts an end to some- 
Neither count I my life dear unto myself, so that I thing ; in colloquial use, that which settles or 
puts the finishing touch to something. 
" You need go no farther on your flying tour of matri- 
mony; my house and my heart alike are open to you 
both." "This was afiiu'slier," said Lackington. 
. To bring to completion ; complete by making f- "'. ilbert ^"'^ " vi - 
_r doing the last or final part of: as, to finish finishing-drill (fin'ish-mg-dril), n. See driin. 
the reading of a book; to finish a task assigned; finishing-press (fin'ish-ing-pres), n. A press 
to finish a house. used in finishing; specifically, in bookbinding, 
He is the half part of a blessed man, a simple form of press, usually made of two 
LefttobeymwAprfby such a she. broad blocks of wood, connected by strong 
Shak., K. John, ii. 2. 8crews o f wood, which are intended to hold a 
Better to finish one small enterprise than to leave many book firmly during the process of finishing, 
large ones half done. J. K Clarice, Self-Culture, p. 349. fl n i sn ing-tOOl ( fin'ish-ing-tol), n. In lathe-work, 
3. To put an end to ; terminate the existence, a turning-tool with a cutting edge ground to 
opposition, etc., of; destroy: as, to finish an a i arge angle. Such tools remove a very thin 
enemy by an overwhelming defeat ; the last cn ip, an d are often used simply as scrapers, 
blow finished him. [Now chiefly colloq.] finishmentt, [ME. fynyshment, fynisment, < 
Seventy weeks are determined upon thy people, and OF.fi,nessement,feniS8Cment; as finish + -ment.] 
upon thy holy city, to finish the transgression, and to make Finishing; end; death, 
an end of sins. Dan. ix. 24. r,i,t<> ,! 
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nixH-, stem of certain parts of finir, F. finir = 
Pr. fenir = OSp. finir = It. finirc, < Ij.finin; 
end, finish, complete, < finis, limit, end: see 
fine 1 , n. and v.] I. trans. 1. To bring to an 
end; arrive at the eud of ; complete by passing 
throughout the length or extent of: as, to fin- 
i.-ili a journey or an undertaking; to finish the 
day ; to finish one's life. 
3ar unto mysel 
might finish my course with joy. Acts xx. '24. 
So when four years were wholly fi/iinl/i'd, 
sin- threw her ro.\al robes away. 
Tennyson, Palace of Art. 
2 
or 
4. To complete and perfect in detail; elabo- 
rate carefully ; put the final touches on, espe- 
cially with reference to smoothing and polish- 
ing. 
Age sets its house iu order, and finishes its works, which 
to every artist is a supreme pleasure. Emerson, Old Age. 
I call'd him Crichton, for he seem'd 
All-perfect, finished to the finger-nail. 
Tennyson, Edwin Morris. 
Merlyu be-gan to telle the lovynge of Ihesu Criste, and 
of losep Aharamathie, like as they hadden ben of the slayn ; 
and of Pieron, and of othir felowes like as they weren de- 
parted, and the fi/iimhuirnt of Joseph and of alle other. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 23. 
finish-turn (fin'ish-tern), t 1 . t. To subject to a 
final operation of turning; finish by the action 
of an accurate lathe. 
They were then finish-turned on the parts fitting into 
the crank-webs. Set. Amer. Supp., p. 8889. 
To put the finishing hand to. See hand.=Syn. 1 and fi n i+ji n . r< L. finitus, pp. of finire, end: see 
2. To end, terminate, close, conclude, complete, perform, jj n jf' e 1 A limit. Nares. 
And soe wee early ended our fifth weekes travel!, with 
the finit of that sheere, at the noble city of Bristow. 
MS. Lansdou-ne, 213. 
II. inlrans. 1. To arrive at the end; stop. 
They sey thei shull neuer fenisshe till thei have a-vengid 
the deth of Ailngis. And thei have assembled a grete 
power, and wele to conquere this londe he force. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 54. 
2. To come to an end ; terminate ; expire. 
These her women, . . . who, with wet cheeks, 
Were present when she jininh'd. 
Shak.; Cymheline, v. 5. 
Exeter doth wish 
His days may finish ere that hapless time. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 
finish (fin'ish), . [(.finish, v.] 1. The end or 
last part of any movement or progress; espe- 
cially, the end of a race or competitive contest 
of any kind. 
I have followed him through his typical Swedish elk- 
hunt, and am loth to leave him before he has achieved 
some sort of success to console him for his disastrous 
finish. Fortnightly Ree., N. S., XLIII. 90. 
2. The last work performed upon any object, 
finite (fi'nit), a. and n. [= F. fini = Sp. Pg. It. 
finito, < L. finitim, pp. of finire, end, complete, 
finish: see finish. Cf.fine^, a., ult. a doublet of 
finite.] I. n. 1 . Not too great nor too small to be 
naturally susceptible of measurement, whether 
measurable by us or not; not infinite nor infin- 
itesimal. All objects of ordinary experience are finite ; 
God, eternity, immensity, and the like are not finite. Ety- 
mologically, finite means having an end or terminal; but 
this signification is not coextensive with the English use 
of the term. Thus, the circumference of a circle has no 
ends, yet is finite ; while past time has au end, yet is not 
finite. So, if a finite arc be cut out of a parabola, what re- 
mains has two ends, yet is not finite. 
The obvious portions of extension that affect our senses 
carry with them into the mind the idea ot finite ; and the 
ordinary periods of succession whereby we measure time 
and duration, as hours, days, and years, are bounded 
lengths. Locke, Human Understanding, II. xvii. 2. 
f T wt ,1 Vn The following are the special significations of the word: 
whereby it is completed or perfected.,}. Care- (n) As applie e d to a C i a89 or integer number, capable of 
ful elaboration or its result ; polish: as, too fin- being completely counted : this is the fundamental mean- 
* * *' j n g_ I'lijg distinction between a finite and an infinite class 
is very important, because there is a peculiar mode of 
ish of a work of art, a poem, or a piece of cloth ; 
to put a fine finish on anything, or to give it an 
exquisite finish; finish in deportment. 
To us who write in a hurry for people who read in a 
hurry, finish would be loss of time. J. Caird. 
reasoning, called by logicians reasoning by transposed 
quantity, which is applicable to finite classes alone. The 
follow ' 
.... owing syllogism is an example: "Every Hottentot 
kills a Hottentot ; but no Hottentot is killed by more than 
one Hottentot ; hence, every Hottentot is killed by a Hot- 
4. The last hard, smooth coat Of plaster on a tentot." If by the Hottentots is here meant a class of 
wall: commonly called hard-finish. Blind fln- which a complete census might be taken, this conclusion 
ish in bookbinding, a style of ornamenting book-covers must be true, provided the premises are true. But if the 
by means of heated stamps, without ink or gold. Curled generations of Hottentots are everlasting, each Hottentot 
finish in metal-vmrk, an ornamental finish giving a curled might kill one of his children, and yet some Hottentots 
might die natural deaths. Reasoning by transposed quan- 
tity is indispensable in the higher arithmetic and algebra ; 
, 
appearance to the surface. It is produced by the manip- 
ulation of a small strip of oilstone or Ayr stone. 
finished (fin'isht),^ ,a Polished to the highest I 
degree of excellence; complete; perfect: as, a portant . (6) As appUe(1 to continuous quantity, smaller 
finished poem ; a finished education. 
A finished gentleman is perhaps the most uncommon of 
all the great characters in life. Steele, Guardian, No. 34. 
There are two great and separate senses in which we 
call a thing finished. . . . One, which refers to the mere 
neatness anil completeness of the actual work, as we speak 
of a well-finished knife-handle or ivory toy ; and secondly, 
a sense which refers to the effect produced by the thing 
done, as we call a picture well finished if it is so full in its 
details as to produce the effect of reality. 
Ruskin, Modern Painters, IV. ix. 3. 
Finished drawing. See draunng. Finished-spirit 
condenser, that part ofca still in which the work of con- 
densation is completed, and from which the hot spirits 
pass to the refrigerator to be cooled. 
finisher (fin'ish-er), n. 1. One who or that 
which finishes, completes, or perfects. 
Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Heb. xii. 2. 
He that of greatest works is finisher 
Oft does them by the weakest minister. 
Shak., All's Well, ii. 1. 
Specifically (a) In bookbinding, a workman who takes 
the incomplete book as left by the forwarder and finishes 
the work with gilding and decoration by various methods, 
(ft) In stereotyping and electrotyping, a workman who per- 
. 
than a suitably chosen finite number multiplied into the 
unit of measurement, and larger than a suitably chosen 
finite number divided by the unit of measurement. 
On account of the finite speed of light, each star appears 
to describe in space a circle of fixed magnitude, in a plane 
parallel to that of the ecliptic. Tail, Light, 66. 
(c) In gram., limited by person ; personal ; strictly verbal ; 
not infinitival nor participial. 
2. Subject to limitations or conditions, such 
as those of space, time, circumstances, and the 
laws of nature: as, a finite being; finite exis- 
tence or duration. 
Only I discern 
Infinite passion and the pain 
Of finite hearts that yearn. 
Brou-ning, Two in the Campagna. 
3. Of or pertaining or relating to finite be- 
ings: as, finite passions or interests Calculus 
of finite differences. See calndus. Finite canon, in 
m/'.v/V, a canon whose theme comes to a definite end, in- 
stead of perpetually returning into itself. See cniionl. 
Finite existence, the mode of existence of everything 
except Cod ; existence in the ordinary sense, not tran- 
scending our power to imagine it ; contingent existence. 
Finite term, (a) In logic,, a noun or verb not contain- 
