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xiii. 26.—To difcover fometliing hidden.—Can’ft thou 
by fearching find out God? Can’ft thou find out the Al¬ 
mighty unto perfection? Job ii.—To obtain the know¬ 
ledge of.—The principal part of painting is to find out, 
and thoroughly to underftand, what nature has made molt 
beautiful. Drydeh. —To invent ; to excogitate.—A man 
of Tyre, (kilful to work in gold, and to find out every de¬ 
vice which ftiall be put to him. 2 Ckron. ii. 14.—The par¬ 
ticle out is added often without any other life than that 
it adds fome force or emphafis to the verb.—It is agree¬ 
able to compare the face of a great man with the charac¬ 
ter, and to try if we can find cut in his looks and features 
either the haughty, cruel, or merciful, temper. Addifion. 
To Find, is a wYrd of very licentious and capricious 
life, not eafily limited or explained; its firft idea is the 
cqnfequence ofifiearch ; the fecond, equally frequent, is mere 
occur [ion. 
FI'NDER, /. One that meets or falls upon any thing. 
—We will bring the device to the bar, and crown thee 
for a finder of madmen. Shakefipeare. —One that picks up 
any thing loft : 
Some lewd fqueaking cryer, 
May gall the finder's confcience, if they meet. Donne. 
FIND'FAULT, fi. Aeenfurer; a caviller.—We are 
makers of manners, Kate ; and the liberty that follows 
cur places, flops the mouths of all findfaults. Shakefipeare. 
FIND'HORN, a fi filing town of Scotland, on the north 
coaft of the county of Murray, at the mouth of the river 
Findhorn, with a tolerable harbour, and a large and con¬ 
venient bay : nine miles weft of Elgin. Lat. 57. 38. N. 
Ion. o. 20. W. Edinburgh. 
FIND'HORN, a river of Scotland, which runs into the 
Frith of Murray, at Findhorn. 
FIND'LEY, a townftiip of the American ftates in Wafti- 
ington county, Pennfylvania. 
FIN'DY, adj. [gepn&ig, Sax.] Plump; weighty; 
firm; folid. Notified. Thus the proverb : 
A cold May and a windy, 
Makes tiie barn fat and Jindy 
means that it ftores the barn with plump and firm grain. 
Junius. 
FINE, ddj. \_fine, Fr . fijn, Dutch and Erfe; perhaps 
from finitus, Lat. completed.] Not coarfe.—He was ar¬ 
rayed in purple and fine linen. Luke. —Refined; pure; 
free from drofs.—Two veffels of fine copper, precious as 
gold. Ezra. —Subtile; thin; tenuous: as, The fine fpirits 
evaporate.—When the eye ftandeth in the finer medium, 
and the objedt in the gruffer, things fliew greater; but 
contrariwife", when the eye is placed in the grofter me¬ 
dium, and the object in the finer. Bacon. —Refined; fub- 
tilely excogitated.—Whether the fcheme has not been 
purfued fo far as to draw it into practice, or whether it 
be too fine to be capable of it, I will not determine. Tem¬ 
ple. — Keen; thin; fmoothly (harp.—Great affairs are 
commonly too rough and ftubborn to be wrought upon 
by the finer edges or points of wit. Bacon. —Clear; pel-> 
lucid ; tranfparent: as, The wine is fine: 
Let the wine without mixture or ftum be all fine, 
■Or call up the mafter. Jcnfion. 
Nice; exquifite; delicate: 
A.re they not fenfelefs, then, that think the foul 
Nought but a fine perfection of the fenfe ? Davies. 
Artful; dexterous.—The wifdom of all thefe latter 
times, in princes’ affairs, is ratheryhze deli veries, and fhift- 
ings of congers and mifchiefs, than folid and grounded 
courfes to keep them aloof. Bacon. — Fraudulent; fly; 
knavilhly fubtle : 
Through his fine handling, and his cleanly play, 
Fie all thofe royal figns had ftoi’n away. Hubbard. 
Elegant; beautiful in thought or language.—To call the 
trumpet by the name of the met /1 was fine. Dryden. — 
Applied to perfon, it means beautiful with dignity,— 
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Guido has been rather too lavifh in bellowing this beauty 
on almoft all his fine women. Spence. —Accomplilhed ; 
elegant of manners.—He was not only the finefi gentle¬ 
man of his time, but one of the finefi fcholars. Felton .— 
Showy; fplendid.—It is with 'a. fine genius as with a fine 
fafhion ;, all thofe are difpleafed at it who are not able to 
follow it. Pope .—[Ironically.] Something that will ferve 
the purpofe ; fometliing worth contemptuous notice : 
They taught us, indeed, to clothe, to dwell in houfes, 
To feaft, to deep on down, to be profufe : 
A finC‘ exchange for liberty. Philips. 
Taper.—And like a crane his neck was long and fine. 
Spenfier. 
“ Fine feathers make fine birds.”—This proverb is 
with great propriety addrefled to perfons in the lower 
orders of the community, who, by dint of good fortune, 
or pnexpedfed fuccefs in their avocations, having ac¬ 
quired a little money, idly difpofe of it in fine clothes, 
with a view to ape their fuperiors ; yet like the peacock, 
the plebeian foot is always vifible, and their folly and 
vanity ever confpicuous. Yet the Latins fay, Vefiis virum 
facit ; Clothes make the man. 
FINE,y. \_ffin, Cimbr.] A muliSt; a pecuniary punifit¬ 
ment.—The killing of an Irilhman was not pnniflied by 
our law as manflaughter, which is felony and capital; 
but by d fine or pecuniary punilhment, called an ericke. 
Davies. —Penalty: 
Ev’n this ill night your breathing (hall expire, 
Paying the fine of rated treachery. Shakefipeare. 
Forfeit; money paid for any exemption or liberty.—The 
fpirit of wantonnefs is fure feared out of him : if the devil 
have him not in fee-fimple, with fine and recovery, he will 
never, in the way of wade, attempt us again. Shakefipeare. 
How vain that fecond life in other breath, 
Th’ eftate which wits inherit after death ! 
Eafe, health, and life, for this they mu ft refign, 
Unfure the tenure, but how vaft the fine! Pope. 
[From finis, Lat .fin, enfin, Fr.] The end; conclufion.— 
The fine is, I will live a bachelor. Shakefipeare. —Is this 
the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries? 
Shakefipeare. 
And all men’s eyes and hearts, which there among 
Stood gazing, filled were with rufull tine 
And fecret feare to fee their fatall fine. Spencer. 
Whence barons bold, and worthies ftiall defeend, 
Who many great exploits ftiall bring to fine. Fairfax. 
[In law.] A final agreement, fometimes called a feoff¬ 
ment of record, of which there are divers kinds.—A fine 
is fo called, becaufe it puts an end, not only to the 1 uit 
commenced, but alfo to all other fuits and controverfies 
concerning the fame matter. Blackfione .—It is often ufed 
adverbially, in fine. To conclude ; to fum up all; to tell 
all at once.—The blellings of fortune are Hie loweft ; the 
next are the bodily advantages of (Length and health ; 
but the fuperlative bleflings, infine, are thofe of the mind. 
V Efirange. 
In [ne, he wears no limbs about him found, 
With fores and fickneffes beleagur’d round. Dryden. 
To FINE, v. a. To refine ; to purify.—The fining pot 
is for (ilver, and the furnace for gold. Prov. —There is 
a vein for the filver, and a place for gold, where they fine 
it. Job. xxviii. 1.—Toembellilh; todecorate. Notinufiei 
Hugh Capet, alfo, who ufurp’d the crown, 
To fine his title with fome (hews of truth, 
Convey’d himfelf as heir to th’ lady Lingare. Shakefipeare. 
To make lefs coarfe.—It fines the grafs, but makes it 
ftiort, though thick. Mortimer. —To make tranfparent-.— 
It is good alfo for fuel, not to omit the (havings of it for 
the fining of wine. Mortimer .—To punilli with pecuniary 
penalty.—To fine men one-third of their fortune, without 
any crime committed, feems very hard. Locke. 
