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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.

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.]

To refine. [Obs.] Holland.

Joined in affinity or by any tie. [Obs.] "All affined and kin." Shak.

The quality of being chuffy.

; to shut up; to inclose; to keep close. Now let not nature's hand Keep the wild flood confined! let order die! Shak. He is to confine himself to the compass of numbers and the slavery of rhyme. Dryden. To be confined, to be in childbed.

Without limitation or end; boundless. Shak.