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One who fines or purifies.

Fineness; beauty. [Obs.] Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts.

nes, or near the border of a country; a borderer; a near neighbor. [Obs.] Bacon. Happy confiners you of other lands, That shift your soil, and oft 'scape tyrants' hands. Daniel.

One who defines or explains.

One who, or that which, refines.

The building and apparatus for refining or purifying, esp. metals and sugar.

m ache with air." Shak. He was still all air and fire. Macaulay . [Air and fire being the finer and quicker elements as opposed to earth and water.]

A baser metal mixed with a finer. Fine silver is silver without the mixture of any baser metal. Alloy is baser metal mixed with it. Locke.

; to rarefy. Specifically: To subtilize, as the humors of the body, or to break them into finer parts.

but cheaper machine-made carpet, resembling moquette in construction and appearance, but finer and of better material.

Finery of a kind to please a child. [Obs.] "Painted babery." Sir P. Sidney.

A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan.

To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.

To sift or separate the coarser from the finer particles of, as bran from flour, by means of a bolter; to separate, assort, refine, or purify by other means. He now had bolted all the flour. Spenser. Ill schooled in bolted language. Shak.

nstrument or machine for separating bran from flour, or the coarser part of meal from the finer; a sieve.

A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc. [Written also burlaps.]

The art or occupation of making the finer articles of household furniture.

Glittering; dressed in, or overlaid with, tinsel finery. [Obs.] Shak.

Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea. Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou, or the "well worked", a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term "English breakfast tea." S. W. Williams.

The act or process of separating the finer parts of drugs from the coarser by sifting.