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The state of being superfine.

Extremely finical.

Any one of several species of fishes belonging to Polynemus and allied genera. They have numerous long pectoral filaments.

A lunch, or slight repast between breakfast and dinner; -- originally, a Provincial English word, but introduced into India, and brought back to England in a special sense.

Quality or state of being turfy.

The act or process of providing or covering with turf. Turfing iron, or Turfing spade, an implement for cutting, and paring off, turf.

To make indefinite; to obliterate or confuse the definition or limitations of.

Not finished, not brought to an end; imperfect; incomplete; left in the rough; wanting the last hand or touch; as, an unfinished house; an unfinished picture; an unfinished iron casting.

The whidah bird.

The act or process of making waterproof.

Having the fingers united by a web for a considerable part of their length.

Wharfs, collectively.

A man who owns, or has the care of, a wharf.

The act of one who, or that which, whiffs.

The whidah bird.

The yaffle. [Prov. Eng.]

A large squeteague.

An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.

The simplest rudiments of any subject; as, the A B C of finance. A B C book, a primer. Shak.

om the observation of facts, or by generalizations from facts arrives at principles and definitions, or infers causes from effects. This is the reverse of a priori reasoning.