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subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous. The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine! Pope. The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery. Dryden. He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman. T. Gray.

moral enthusiasm; capacity for ardor and zeal. And bless their critic with a poet's fire.Pope.

Detached from substance. [Obs.] Does passion still the firmless mind control Pope.

Consisting of fish; fishlike; having the qualities or taste of fish; abounding in fish. Pope.

To be proper or becoming. Nor fits it to prolong the feast. Pope.

eye on an object, the attention on a speaker. Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite. Pope. One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven. Young.

A fan; especially, the fan carried before the pope on state occasions, made in ostrich and peacock feathers. Shipley.

Guilty of enormous crimes; corrupt; profligate; -- said of persons. Pope.

To form into flakes. Pope.

nger. "In a flame of zeal severe." Milton. Where flames refin'd in breasts seraphic glow. Pope. Smit with the love of sister arts we came, And met congenial, mingling flame with flame. Pope.

Flaming; blazing; flamelike; flame-colored; composed of flame. Pope.

To beat with a flap; to strike. Yet let me flap this bug with gilded wings. Pope.

A vessel in which viands are served. [Obs.] Pope.

treets in your new gilt chariot. Arbuthnot. One flaunts in rags, one flutters in brocade. Pope.

especially by trickery or frand; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions. Whilst pope and prince shared the wool betwixt them, the people were finely fleeced. Fuller.

bility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection. Proud of a vast extent of flimsy lines. Pope. All the flimsy furniture of a country miss's brain. Sheridan.

he sun begins to fling His flaring beams. Milton. Every beam new transient colors flings. Pope.

of a fluid, or through the air. They stretch their broad plumes and float upon the wind. Pope. There seems a floating whisper on the hills. Byron.

coarse wool, or pieces of cloth cut up fine. "Once a flock bed, but repaired with straw." Pope. -- Flock paper, paper coated with flock fixed with glue or size.

and irregular motion. Impetuous spread The stream, and smoking flourished o'er his head. Pope.