Fine

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1. Adjective form

Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.

2. Adjective form

Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.

3. Adjective form

Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.

4. Adjective form

Not coarse, gross, or heavy

5. Adjective form

Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous.

6. Adjective form

Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.

7. Adjective form

Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.

8. Adjective form

Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.

9. Adjective form

Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.

10. Adjective form

Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.

11. Adjective form

(Used ironically.)

12. Adjective

To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.

13. Adjective

To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.

14. Adjective

To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.

15. Noun

End; conclusion; termination; extinction.

16. Noun

A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.

17. Noun

A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.

18. Noun

A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.

19. Noun

To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.

20. Verb

To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b).

21. Verb

To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.
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