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Exility :: Exility (a.) Smallness; meagerness; slenderness; fineness, thinness..

Merino :: Merino (n.) A breed of sheep originally from Spain, noted for the fineness of its wool..

Fineness :: Fineness (a.) Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade..

Superfinical :: Superfineness (n.) The state of being superfine.

Matte :: Matte (n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color..

Carat :: Carat (n.) A twenty-fourth part; -- a term used in estimating the proportionate fineness of gold.

Quartation :: Quartation (n.) The act, process, or result (in the process of parting) of alloying a button of nearly pure gold with enough silver to reduce the fineness so as to allow acids to attack and remove all metals except the gold; -- called also inquartation. Compare Parting..

Fineness :: Fineness (a.) The quality or condition of being fine.

Fineness :: Fineness (a.) Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor..

Superfine :: Superfine (a.) Very fine, or most fine; being of surpassing fineness; of extra nice or fine quality; as, superfine cloth..

Alloy :: Alloy (v. t.) The quality, or comparative purity, of gold or silver; fineness..

Reprobate :: Reprobate (a.) Not enduring proof or trial; not of standard purity or fineness; disallowed; rejected.

Fineness :: Fineness (a.) The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins..

Pickedness :: Pickedness (n.) Fineness; spruceness; smartness.

Sort :: Sort (v. t.) To separate, and place in distinct classes or divisions, as things having different qualities; as, to sort cloths according to their colors; to sort wool or thread according to its fineness..

Thread :: Thread (n.) Fig.: Composition; quality; fineness.

Betterness :: Betterness (n.) The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.

Pyx :: Pyx (n.) A box used in the British mint as a place of deposit for certain sample coins taken for a trial of the weight and fineness of metal before it is sent from the mint.

Pick :: Pick (n.) The blow which drives the shuttle, -- the rate of speed of a loom being reckoned as so many picks per minute; hence, in describing the fineness of a fabric, a weft thread; as, so many picks to an inch..

Subtilty :: Subtilty (n.) The quality or state of being subtile; thinness; fineness; as, the subtility of air or light..

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