F I N 
To perform any work exquifitely with the fingers: 
Not any {kill’d in loops of fingering fine, 
With this fo curious net-work might compare. Spenfer. 
FIN'GER’s BREADTH, /. A meafure of two barley 
corns length, or four laid fide to fide. 
FIN'GER-STONE, f. [ telcnites , Lat.] A foffil refem- 
bling an arrow. 
FIN'GLEFANGLE,/ A trifle. A buricfque word: 
We agree in nothing but to wrangle, 
About the flighted finglefangle. Hudibras. 
FINGRI'GO,/. in botany. See Pisonia. 
FIN'GUERE,/! in botany. See Ficus. 
FIN'HAM, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lot : feven miles fouth-weft of Montauban. 
FI N'l A, a town of Sweden, in the province of Schonen: 
twenty miles north-weft of Chriftianftadt. 
FI'NIAL, /. in ancient architecture, is the foliage 
which terminates the forms of pinnacles, pediments, to 
buildings or monuments, &c. 
FIN 1 A'NA, or Finana, a town of Spain, in the king¬ 
dom of Grenada : feven miles fouth of Baca. 
FINl'CA, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in the province 
of Caramania : fifty miles fouth of Satalia. 
FINl'CA, a river of Afiatic Turkey, which runs into 
the Mediterranean : fourteen miles weft-north-weft of 
Cape Chelidoni. 
FlN'ICAL, adj. Nice; foppilh ; pretending to fuper- 
flnous elegance.—-I cannot hear a finical fop romancing, 
how the king took him afide at fuch a time; what the 
queen faid to him at another. L’EJlrange. 
FIN'ICALLY, adv. Foppifhly. 
FIN'ICALNESS, f. Superfluous nicety ; foppery. 
Fl'N ING, part. ad. Pay ing a fine, laying a fine ; making 
fine, clearing from foulnefs. 
FI'NING-POT,yi A veflel ufed in refining metals. 
FINI'RE, v. a. in old records, to fine, to nnilCt. 
- FI'NIS,/ [Latin.] The end. 
To FIN'ISH, v. a. [finir, Fr. finio, Lat.] To bring to 
the end propofed ; to complete.—For which of you, in¬ 
tending to build a tower, fitteth not down firft and coun't- 
eth the coft, whether he have fufficient to finijh it ? Luke 
txiv. 28.—As he had begun, fo he would alfo finijh in you 
the fame grace. 2 Cor. viii. 6.—To make perfedt.—A poet 
ufes epifodes; but epifodes, taken feparately, finijh no¬ 
thing. Broome. —To perfeCf; to polifti to the excellency 
intended : 
Though here you all perfection ftiould not find, 
Yet it is all th 5 Eternal Will defign’d ; 
It is a finijh'd work, and perfeCt in its kind. Blackmore. 
To end ; to put an end to. 
To FIN'ISH, v.n. [finis, Lat. 1 To come to an end ; to 
die.—I had you down, and might have made you finijh. 
Shakefpeare. 
FI'NISH, /. in architecture, the crowning of all kinds 
of works, by entablatures, parapets, battlements, pedi¬ 
ments, turrets, fpires, &c. 
FIN'ISH, an illand on the weft coaft of Ireland, one 
mile eaft from Minifh ifland, in the county of Galway. 
FIN'ISHER,/. Performer; accomplifher : 
He that of greateft works is finijher, 
Oft does them by the weakelt minifter. Shakefpeare. 
One that puts an end ; ender. One that completes or 
perfects.—The author and finijher of our faith. Hebrews. 
O prophet of glad tidings! finijher 
Of utmoft hope 1 Milton. 
FINISHING,yi The laft touch of a compofition either 
of artift or penman.—When fome rough ftrokes of the 
pencil have mice the feveral parts of the picture look a 
little hard, it is a juftice to reconcile men to it by the laft 
finijhing. M.ofH lfix. 
FINISTER'RA, a town of Spain, in the province of 
Galicia, near Cape Finilterre. 
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FINISTER'RE, a-department of France, bounded on 
the north, weft, and fouth, by the fea, and on the eaft by 
the department ot the North Cotifts, and Morbiha 1; about 
fifty miles from north to fouth, and forty to forty-five from 
eaft to weft ; containing the weftern part of what was here¬ 
tofore called Bretagne. Qjumper is the capital ; other 
principal towns are Bred, Qnjmperle, Morlaix, Cha- 
teaulin, Lefneven, Landerneau, Carhaix, Pontcroix, and 
Douarnenez. The principal rivers are the Anine and the 
Odet. 
FI'NITE, adj. [finitus, Lat.] Limited; bounded; ter¬ 
minated.— Finite of any magnitude holds not any propor¬ 
tion to infinite. Locke. 
FI'NITELESS, adj. Without bounds; unlimited.— 
It is ridiculous unto reafon, and finitekjs as their defires. 
Brown. , 
FI'NITELY, adv. Within certain limits ; to a certain 
degree.—They are creatures ltill, and that lets them at 
an infinite diftance from God ; whereas all their excel¬ 
lencies can make them but finitely diftant from us. Stillingjl. 
FI'NITENESS, f. Limitation ; confinement within 
certain boundaries.—I ought now to unbay the current 
of my paflion, and love without other boundary than what 
is fet by the finitenefs of my natural powers. Norris. 
FINITEUR', f. in the riding-fchools, the end of the 
courfe, the end of the career. Scott. 
FIN'ITIVE, adj. Defining, bounding. 
FI'NITOR,y. The horizon ; being fo called, becaufe 
it finifhes or bounds the fight or profpeft. 
FIN'ITUDE,y; Limitation ; confinement within cer¬ 
tain boundaries.— Finitude, applied to natural or created 
things, imports the proportions of the feveral-degrees of 
affections, or properties of thefe things to one another; 
infinitude, the unboundednefs of thefe degrees of affec¬ 
tions, or properties. Cheyne. 
FIN'KENSTEIN, or Habersdorf, a town of Pruflia, 
in the Oberland : feventy-five miles fouth-fouth-weft Of 
Konigfberg. 
FIN'KENSTEIN, a town of Germany, in the duchy 
of Carinthia: fixteen miles fouth-weft of Clagenfurt. 
FIN'LAND, a country of Europe, bounded on the 
north by Lapland, on the eaft by Ruftia, on the fouth by 
a gulf to which it gives name, and on the w-eft by the 
gulf of Bothnia. The land is fertile, but badly culti¬ 
vated, and thinly inhabited. On a tradf of more than 
Sooo fquare leagues, hardly a million of fouls are to be 
found. The paftures are exceedingly good, but the cat¬ 
tle are fmall. The forefts of firs furnilh the principal 
articles of commerce, in wood, charcoal, timber, and 
planks, which are fent to Stockholm for exportation. 
Game is abundant of various kinds. The lakes and rivers 
abound in variety of fifti, and pearls are found on the 
coafts. At the bottom of the morafles earth is dug, from 
which iron is extracted. There are alfo fome mines of 
lead. Along the coafts lie a great number of fmall rocky 
itlands. The inhabitants are in general brave and war¬ 
like, but have fuffered much from the ravages of war. 
The corn principally cultivated is rye, barley, and buck¬ 
wheat ; and the poorer fort of inhabitants, for want of 
better food, dry even draw, bruife and mix it with fome 
meal to make bread. The winter, is a very buly feafon 
with the Finlander. He thrafhes out his corn, collects, 
wood, builds boats, makes nets, and employs himfelf in 
fifhing, or in hunting fquirrels, bears, and feals. The 
crofs-bow was till lately in general ufe. One mode of 
filhing is curious: when a filli is obferved in Ihailow- 
water, after the froft has fet in, the fiflierman ftrikes a 
violent blow with a wooden mallet fo as to break the 
ice; the animal; thus ftunned, rifes in a few feconds to 
the furface, and is caught. Mr. Acerbi gives a very en¬ 
tertaining account of the cuftoms of tlie Finlanders. 
Their modes of courtfhip and their marriage ceremonies 
evince great limplicity of manners. The ufe ot vapour- 
baths is univerfal among the people ; and both lex:’* m x 
promifeuoufly, without feeling the fmalleft impropriety-;. 
The 
