Finery :: Finery (n.) Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels..

Finery :: Finery (n.) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling..

Finespun :: Finespun (a.) Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories..

Finesse :: Finesse (a.) Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem.

Finesse :: Finesse (a.) The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2..

Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To use artifice or stratagem.

Finesse :: Finesse (v. i.) To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play..

Finessed :: Finessed (imp. & p. p.) of Finess.

Finessing :: Finessing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Finess.

Finestill :: Finestill (v. t.) To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation..

Finestiller :: Finestiller (n.) One who finestills.

Finew :: Finew (n.) Moldiness.

Huffiness :: Huffiness (n.) The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.

Leafiness :: Leafiness (n.) The state of being leafy.

Muffineer :: Muffineer (n.) A dish for keeping muffins hot.

Olefine :: Olefine (n.) Olefiant gas, or ethylene; hence, by extension, any one of the series of unsaturated hydrocarbons of which ethylene is a type. See Ethylene..

Overrefine :: Overrefine (v. t.) To refine too much.

Overrefinement :: Overrefinement (n.) Excessive refinement.

Paraffine :: Paraffine (n.) A white waxy substance, resembling spermaceti, tasteless and odorless, and obtained from coal tar, wood tar, petroleum, etc., by distillation. It is used as an illuminant and lubricant. It is very inert, not being acted upon by most of the strong chemical reagents. It was formerly regarded as a definite compound, but is now known to be a complex mixture of several higher hydrocarbons of the methane or marsh-gas series; hence, by extension, any substance, whether solid, liquid, or

Post-fine :: Post-fine (n.) A duty paid to the king by the cognizee in a fine of lands, when the same was fully passed; -- called also the king's silver..

Predefine :: Predefine (v. t.) To define beforehand.

Prefine :: Prefine (v. t.) To limit beforehand.

Puffiness :: Puffiness (n.) The quality or state of being puffy.

Refine :: Refine (v. t.) To reduce to a fine, unmixed, or pure state; to free from impurities; to free from dross or alloy; to separate from extraneous matter; to purify; to defecate; as, to refine gold or silver; to refine iron; to refine wine or sugar..

Refine :: Refine (v. t.) To purify from what is gross, coarse, vulgar, inelegant, low, and the like; to make elegant or exellent; to polish; as, to refine the manners, the language, the style, the taste, the intellect, or the moral feelings..

Refine :: Refine (v. i.) To become pure; to be cleared of feculent matter.

Refine :: Refine (v. i.) To improve in accuracy, delicacy, or excellence..

Refine :: Refine (v. i.) To affect nicety or subtilty in thought or language.

Refined :: Refined (imp. & p. p.) of Refin.

Refined :: Refined (a.) Freed from impurities or alloy; purifed; polished; cultured; delicate; as; refined gold; refined language; refined sentiments.

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