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A small singing bird of many genera and species, belonging to the family Fringillidæ.

Streaked or spotted on the back; -- said of cattle.

Same as Finchbacked.

eive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. "I find you passing gentle." Shak. The torrid zone is now found habitable. Cowley.

Capable of beong found; discoverable. Fuller.

One who, or that which, finds; specifically (Astron.), a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.

A censurer or caviler. [Obs.]

Apt to censure or cavil; faultfinding; captious. [Obs.] Whitlock.

That which is found, come upon, or provided; esp. (pl.), that which a journeyman artisan finds or provides for himself; as tools, trimmings, etc. When a man hath been laboring . . . in the deep mines of knowledge, hath furnished out his findings in all their equipage. Milton.

ll; heavy; firm; solid; substemtial. [Obs.] A cold May and a windy Makes the barn fat amd findy. Old Prover

Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful. The gain thereof [is better] than fine gold. Prov. iii. 14. A cup of wine that's brisk and fine. Shak. Not only the finest gentleman of his time, but one of the finest schola…

To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.

One who finedraws.

Drawn out with too much subtilty; overnice; as, finedrawn speculations.

To run in dept by getting goods made up in a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit. [R.] Goldsmith.

Endless; boundless. [Obs.] Shak.

In a fine or finished manner.

The quality or condition of being fine.

One who fines or purifies.

Fineness; beauty. [Obs.] Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts.