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To dress or finish up (cloth); to pick knots, burs, loose threads, etc., from, as in finishing cloth. Burling iron, a peculiar kind of nippers or tweezers used in burling woolen cloth.

, though larger than a carte de visite. -- Cabinet picture, a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection.

taking up the same subject. It either winds up with a coda (tailpiece), or, as each voice finishes, commences anew, thus forming a perpetual fugue or round. It is the strictest form of imitation. See Imitation.

The top sheaf of a stack of grain: (fig.) the crowning or finishing part of a thing.

mains of some bulky and once comely thing, as a ship; the skeleton, or the uncovered or unfinished frame, of a thing. A rotten carcass of a boat. Shak.

To line or finish a surface, as of a wall, with plaster, stucco, thin boards, or the like.

The lining or finishing of any wall or other surface, with plaster, thin boards, etc.; also, the work when done.

A gingham woven in plain colors with linen finish.

To perform; to do; to finish. [Obs.] Nores. Thet char is chared, as the good wife said when she had hanged her husband. Old Proverb.

erial has been used almost exclusively for preliminary outline, etc., but at present many finished drawings are made with it. -- Charcoal point, a carbon pencil prepared for use un an electric light apparatus. -- Mineral charcoal, a term applied to silky fibrous layers of charcoal, interlaminated in beds of ordinary…

A tool with several points, used for cutting or finishing screw threads, either external or internal, on work revolving in a lathe.

Corrected; disciplined; refined; purified; toned down. Sir. W. Scott. Of such a finished chastened purity. Tennyson.

To daub or smear, as with lime; to make or finish in a slipshod way. [Scot.]

A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

To bring to an end or period; to conclude; to complete; to finish; to end; to consummate; as, to close a bargain; to close a course of instruction. One frugal supper did our studies close. Dryden.

A finisher; that which finishes or terminates.

ded into quarters and nails. -- Cloth paper, a coarse kind of paper used in pressing and finishing woolen cloth. -- Cloth shearer, one who shears cloth and frees it from superfluous nap.

Finished; ended; concluded; completed; as, the edifice is complete. This course of vanity almost complete. Prior.

To bring to an end; to close; to finish. I will conclude this part with the speech of a counselor of state. Bacon.

To bring to completion; to raise to the highest point or degree; to complete; to finish; to perfect; to achieve. To consummate this business happily. Shak.