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Precise in trifles; idly busy. [Colloq.] Smart.

The act of imposing a fin

An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.

o bring to an end; to put an end to; to make an end of; to terminate. And heroically hath finished A life heroic. Milton.

Polished to the highest degree of excellence; complete; perfect; as, a finished poem; a finished education. Finished work (Mach.), work that is made smooth or polished, though not necessarily completed.

One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings, finisher Of utmost hope! Milton.

The act or process of completing or perfecting; the final work upon or ornamentation of a thing.

Having a limit; limited in quantity, degree, or capacity; bounded; -- opposed to infinite; as, finite number; finite existence; a finite being; a finite mind; finite duration.

Infinite. [Obs.] Sir T. browne.

In a finite manner or degree.

The state of being finite.

Limitation. Cheyne.

In the Levant, a small coffee cup without a handle, such as is held in a cup or stand called a zarf.

A native or inhabitant of Finland.

destitute of fins.

A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.

Resembling a fin.

A native of Finland; one of the FinnFinns.

Haddock cured in peat smoke, originally at Findon (pron. fìn"an), Scotland. the name is also applied to other kinds of smoked haddock. [Written also finnan haddock.]

Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin. Mortimer.