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Spun so as to be fine; drawn to a fine thread; attenuated; hence, unsubstantial; visionary; as, finespun theories.

y of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.

To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.

One who finestills.

Moldiness. [R.]

A finback whale.

A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.

Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.

Having fingers.

One who fingers; a pilferer.

The act or process of handling or touching with the fingers. The mere sight and fingering of money. Grew.

A young salmon. See Parr.

A trifle. [Low] Hudibras.

A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry.

The knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle itself.

Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly particular; fastidious. "Finical taste." Wordsworth. The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving nothing else. Hazlitt.

The quality of being finical; finicalness.

Finical; unduly particular. [Colloq.]

A limiting element or quality. [R.] The essential finific in the form of the finite. Coleridge.

To make fine; to dress finically. [Obs.] Hath so pared and finified them [his feet.] B. Jonson.