finite 
ing a negative particle, as man, opposed to not-man; also, 
a proposition containing only finite terms. (6) In mutlt.. 
an integral is said to be expressed in finite terms when it 
is expressed without resort to an infinite series, although 
it may be expressed by means of exponential, elliptic, or 
Abelian functions \\hii-h are synonymous with infinite se- 
ries ; but frequently expressions involving higher kinds of 
functions than the exponential and trigonometric are ex- 
cluded. 
II. it. That which is finite ; finite things col- 
lectively : used only with the definite article. 
When oue talks of the infinite in terms borrowed from 
the finite . . . his words are not symbols. 
0. W. Holmes, Emerson, v. 
finite (fi'nlt), v. t.; pret. and pp. finited, ppr. finner 2 (fi.- ~-,, ., 
fin/tiny. [< finite, a.] To limit ; fix the limits finner-whale (fin 
of. [Rare.] Finnic (fin ~ 
What gives me identity: i. e., what forever fixes or or relating 
Ji/t iift me to my own consciousness, and to others' regard. 
//. James, Subs, and Shad., p. 85. 
finitelesst (fi'mt-les), a. [< finite + -less.~\ Un- 
limited; infinite. 
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edges on either side, as a plow ; specifically, in 
tin-., having the fins of a different tincture from 
the rest: said of a fish used as a bearing: as, 
a fish sable finned or. 
They plough up the turf with a toMdjInfMd plough. 
Stoftnu/'f, Hii.sliaiKln. 
finner 1 (fin'er), n. [<fin^ + -?!.] A fin-whale or 
a finback; any member of the BalaHOptoridtF. 
Oregon finner, the finback whale or razorhack, Balm- 
noptera reli/rra. Sharp-headed finner, the smallest 
species of JlaUeiwptera known on the western coast of the 
United States ; the Balcenojitera davidgoni : generally call- 
ed by the whalemen a young finback. 
fir-cone 
the best examples. True fiords can exist only li. 
steep and lofty mountuiu.range borders closely on the sea. 
King Olaf's ships came sailing 
V>i thward out of Drontheim haven 
To the mouth of Saltcn t'iurd. 
Ijvn'jfelluw, Saga of King Olaf. 
The frozen ftunl* were tishless, 
The earth withheld her grain. 
Whittier, Dole of Jari Thorkell. 
\\ V see that, in whatever language it is that Brentesion 
means a stag's horn, the name was not unfittingly given 
to the antler-like jinntt of this little inland sea. 
K. A. F n't- nm n, Venice, p. 312. 
group of languages spoken by them ; Finnish, 
in the most general sense : as, the Magyars are 
a Finnic people. 
tied with red and white, found among Roman 
ruins in Italy, and often used again in more 
recent buildings. 
L inm\j ^/CV^/1C* n A, f, f j, 
It is maintained by some that the Finnic languages rep- 5 *',; - - 6 a8 fl? ure j- 
resent the oldest forms among the Uralo-Altaic groups. Horin (n o-rm), H. [Ir. fiorthan, a long coarse 
Encyc. Brit., IX. 219. grass.] An Irish name for white or marsh bent, 
Finnic race, an ethnological group belonging to the Agrostis vulgaris, var. alba, a common grass in 
Ural-Altaic family of man, scattered over northern Rus- pastures. 
sia and Scandinavia, Siberia, and Hungary, and including finritp rfio'ritl f( Hntitn Vinrr in 
the Finns proper, Lapps, Esthonians, Livonians, Tchuds, "J"? * V t' j% L I , 9 i ' 
Permians, Ugrians, Ostiaks, Magyars, etc. They all ex' ("here it IS found) + -lie*.] 
hibit physical resemblances, and speak similar agglutina- 
tive languages, unlike any others spoken in Europe, but 
related to the Samoyedic, Turkish. .Mongolian, and Tun- 
gusic languages. Their language is also called Ugrian 
and Finnii- Hungarian. 
See finicking, 
A variety of si 
licious sinter found incrusting volcanic tufa. 
It is found in the vicinity of hot springs and volcanoes in 
globular, botryoidal, and stalactitic concretions with a 
pearly luster, and consists of silica (sometimes impure 
from the presence of alumina), iron peroxid, and water. 
Oei/serite is a variety occurring about the orifices of gey- 
It is ridiculous unto reason, and finitelesg as their de- 
sires. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
finitely (fl'mt-li), adv. In a finite manner or de- 
gree ; within limits ; to a certain degree only. 
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. StillingJUet. 
finiteness (fi'nit-nes), . The mode or quality 
of being finite, in any sense ; a finite state or 
condition; limited quality or character as re- 
gards extent, duration, power, etc.: as, the finnicking, finnikin, a. and . 
finiteness of our natural powers ; the finiteness finikin. 
of a number. finning (fin'ing), n. The last throes of a whale fir ,?*?? 1 i 1 /* ?>> ?: ,!. P 1 - fixture (-re). 
The universe, though dependent on the Infinite, is made in dying. See to fin out, under fi,,l, r. i. t 11 -' J* a flowering, flourishing, <fionre, flower 
up of individual limited atoms, and any amount of finite- Finnish (fin'ish), . and n. [= Sw. Dan Flush i1olirl8ll: see flourish.] In music, an ornament 
= Icel. Finnskr; as Finn + -js/i 1 .] I a. Of or or em p e lshment, as a trill, turn, etc., iutro- 
pertaining to Finland or its ' 
Finnic race. 
II. . The language spoken by the Finns -, ...- ,-_ *-. 
proper, called by themselves Suomi. it is a dia- i'W'*?"' filh P> && a mh P-J To filll P- t Prov - 
lectof the Ugrian or Finno-Hungarian branch of the Ural- 
Altaic or Scythian family, and is proximately related to 
the Lappish and many languages of the aborigines of Rus- 
sia, and to the Hungarian. See Finnic. 
finny (fin'i), a. [<finl + -y~l.] I. Having fins; 
finned : as, finny fish. 
ness added together or multiplied cannot reach infinity. 
Bibliotheea Sacra, XLV. 96. 
Once alienated from God and plunged into finitetien and 
sensuousness, men deified the powers of nature, or mortal 
men, or even carnal lusts, as in Aphrodite. 
Schaf, Hist. Christ. Church, III. 11. 
finitort (fin'i-tor), n. [< L. finitor, one who de- 
termines boundaries, a surveyor, also (sc. cir- 
culus) the horizon, < finire, end, limit, bound: 
see finish, fine 1 .] In astral., the horizon. 
finitude (fiu'i-tud), . [< L. finitus, pp.: see 
its inhabitants,' or the ' Iu< % d , lnto melody: commonly in the plural. 
fip 1 (fip), t>. t. ; pret. and pp. fii>ped,ppr. fipi>nu/. 
<poken bv the Finns & dial., a reduction otfiij> or fyA. (jf. 6. 
fimaen, fillip, Jtppt, a fillip.] To fillip. [Prov. 
flp- (fip), n. [An abbr. of fippenny.] A fippenny 
bit. [Local, U. S.] 
I haven't hardly a hair left to my hide, or a pewter fi/i 
in my pocket S. Jvdcl, Margaret, ii. 7. 
"fii'lie^" Cf7 infinitude.] L The' state"or ^ode"^? " lie teh"mark'Jt"watfull of finny monsters of the deep, fi PP en ce (fip'ens), n. A contracted form of /re- 
being finite ; especially, subjection to limita- a " new an| l strange to us. 
tions or conditions ; limitation. See finite, 2. /.arfi/ Bmej/, Voyage of Sunbeam, I. iv. fippenny (fip e-ni), a. A contracted form of fire- 
The fulness of the creation, and the finitude of the crea- 
ture. Chalmers. 
smith. 
The mind is not finite just because it knows it is finite. 
... It is a flagrant self-contradiction that the finite should 
know its own finitnde. 
F. If. Bradley, Ethical Studies, p. 69. 
finklet, n. [Also > finckle ,finkel; < ME. fynkyl, finochio (fi-no'ki-6), . [It. finocchio, fennel, < 
fenkel, a var. of fennel, ult. < L. feniculum, dim. L. feniculum, fennel: see fennel.] Fceniculum 
otjeitmu: see fennel] Fennel. dulce, a variety of fennel ; sweet fennel. Lou- 
of FiiMe or Fennell, and Hempe. don. 
Holland, tr. of Pliny, xx. 9. 
2. Fishy; fish-like; of the nature of fish: as, l lcnr >y Fippenny bit, flvepence : aculloquialnanu -for- 
the Unnu trihos merly common in Pennsylvania and several of the South- 
, -rn States for the Spanish half-real, the value of which 
She mles the feather a Kind urajHmy Race. was about 6 cents 
Conyreve, Hymn to Venus, fipple (flp'l), n. [Origin obscure.] 1. The 
3. Containing fish: as, the finny deep. Gold- under lip. [Prov. Eng.J 2t. A stopper, as at 
the mouth of a musical wind-instrument. 
Some kind of wind instruments are blown at a small 
hole in the side, which straitneth the breath of the first 
entrance ; the rather, in respect of their traverse, and 
stop above the hole, which performeth the fipple ' part. 
Bacon, Nat. Hist.. 11(>. 
(fg'nos), n. pi. [Sp.. pi. otfi-no, fine, excel- 
fin- 2. Technically, in iclttli., detached rays fin-ray (fiu'ra), 
of a dorsal or anal fin, forming a kind of fin, a fish. See th 
especially in the mackerel family. See Scorn- locoracoid. 
&"*& A form of dermal exoskeleton, which is peculiar to and 
Serial concrescence of primitively distinct metameric 8"ly characteristic of fishes, is found in the fin-rays, 
finlets. j, A. Kyder. 
... n. One of the rays of the fin of i-.. 6 -. fir-tree ; = OHG. forlia, MHG. rorhe, G. 
the extract, and cut under scapu- fohre = Icel. fura = Norw. fura, fitrtt, fora, 
Joro = Sw. fura, far (in comp. furu-) = Dan. 
fV T ( in eomp.fyrre-), fir (cf. W. pyr, fir) ; akin to 
OHG. rereh-eih (cih = E. oak), Lombard fereha 
F l n ? n) ' "' f A l S - 8 P ell d - R ; < ME - Finnes, iTecome'johfted^Ta^SranTspm up longiii'Slly' 
Ab. *\nnas, pL, Finns, -F>w<^too(,_land of the toward their extremities. Ilnxley, Anat. Vert., p. 41. 
A spine of a fish's fin; 
Having spiny fins; 
, = Icel. Finnr = Sw. Dan. Finne, Finn ; fin-spine (fin'spin), n. 
cf. Icel. Filmland, Sw. Dan. Finland, Finland, a spinous ray of a fin. 
saul , t( l, be a translation, equiv. to 'feuland,' fin-spined (fin'spind), a. 
of the t mmsh name, Suomi or Suumenmaa, lit. acanthopterygious 
the swampy region; cf. Icel. Norw. ODan. fen = fintt, v. A Middle English and Anglo-Saxon 
fi^L , native of Finland ; a Finlander. contraction of findeth. See find. 
-4. Jithnologically (a) A member of the fintock (fin'tok), n. 
bothF 
. branch of the Finnic race - 
C inlana and other parts of northwestern 
is abies : see Abies. For the relation E. / = L. 
qu, cf . E. four = L. quattuor. Not related, as 
sometimes asserted, either to fire, to furze, or to 
forest.] A coniferous tree, properly of the ge- 
nus Abies, in distinction from the spruce (Picea) : 
a term also applied, more loosely, to trees of 
other genera, as Picea and Pinus. See Abies. 
Among the true firs are the silver fire, Abies jxttinata of 
finnac (fin'ak), ,, [Also^^, finnoc ^Ifin- 
saiiuou, \jwnn, wmte ; also called gealag, < geal. 
white.] The white trout, a variety of Salmo 
fario. [Scotch.] 
finnan-haddock, findon-haddock (fin 'an-, 
fin don-had"ok), n.^ [< Finnan, a corruption 
Aberdeen, Scotland, + haddock.] A common 
name for smoked " 
morus. 
fin-toed (fin'tod), a. Same as fin-footed. 
(fin'wed), n. A local English name 
x /; n. Same as finner^. 
fin-winged (fin'wingd), a. Having wings like 
fins or flippers, as a penguin. 
fiord, fjord (fy6rd), n. [Also fyord; < Norw. 
and Dan. fjord = Sw. fjard ='lcel. fjordhr, a 
frith, a bay (larger than a i-ik, a small crescent- 
formed inlet or creek) ; akin to E. ford, and 
to L. portus, a haven. From the Ic " ~" ~ 
comes MS., firth, mod. E. firth, frith: 
iamea; the balsam-fir or white fir of the Rocky Moun- 
tains, A. concolor; the red firs of the Pacific coast, A. no- 
Of other genera are the Scotch fir, Pfn sitlvestris, and 
the spruce-fir or Norway spruce, Picea excelm ; the red, 
(find) 
a fin 
' 
gnetaceous genera Ephedra and Gnetum are known as 
joiut-flrs. 
But how the fyr was rnaked up on highte, 
And eke the names how the trees highte, 
As ook, firre, birch, etc. 
Chmtcer, Knight's Tale. 1. 2063. 
a comparatively narrow arm of fir-apple (fer'ap'l), n. A fir-cone. [Eng. 
more or less precipitous slopes fir-cone (fer'kon). n. The cone-shaped " 
on each side. The coast of Norway offers the fir. 
