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

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

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.

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

One who affects special finery or gives undue attention to dress; a fop; a coxcomb.

See Finery.

Showy, but counterfeit; cheap, pretentious, and vulgar; as, flash jewelry; flash finery.

Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.

Splendor of appearance; ostentatious finery. [Archaic] Guess the gallantry of our church by this . . . when the desk whereon the priest read was inlaid with plates of silver. Fuller.

An ornament; a piece of worthless finery; a trinket. "An idle gaud." Shak.

Finery; ornaments; ostentatious display. [R.] "Tarnished gaudery." Dryden.

Finery; show; as, the gayety of dress.

Gayety; finery. [R.]

n forge or bloomery, or by purifying (puddling) cast iron in a reverberatory furnace or refinery. It is tough, malleable, and ductile. When formed into bars, it is called bar iron.

Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.

Appendages; ornaments; finery; equipments.