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<p> FINE, a. </p> 1. Small thin slender minute of very small diameter as a fine thread fine silk a fine hair. We say also, fine sand, fine particles. 2. [[Subtil]] thin tenuous as, fine spirits evaporate a finer medium opposed to a grosser. 3. [[Thin]] keep smoothly sharp as the fine edge of a razor. 4. Made of fine threads not coarse as fine linen or cambric. 5. [[Clear]] pure free from feculence or foreign matter as fine gold or silver wine is not good till fine. 6. Refined. <p> Those things were too fine to be fortunate, and succeed in all parts. </p> 7. Nice delicate perceiving or discerning minute beauties or deformities as a fine taste a fine sense. 8. Subtil artful dextrous. See Finess. 9. Subtil sly fraudulent. 10. Elegant beautiful in thought. <p> To call the trumpet by the name of the metal was fine. </p> 11. Very handsome beautiful with dignity. <p> The lady has a fine person, or a fine face. </p> 12. [[Accomplished]] elegant in manners. He was one of the finest gentlemen of his age. 13. Accomplished in learning excellent as a fine scholar. 14. [[Excellent]] superior brilliant or acute as a man of fine genius. 15. [[Amiable]] noble ingenuous excellent as a man of a fine mind. 16. Showy splendid elegant as a range of fine buildings a fine house or garden a fine view. 17. Ironically, worthy of contemptuous notice eminent for bad qualities. <p> That same knave, Ford, her husband, has the finest mad devil of jealousy in him, [[Master]] Brook, that ever governed frenzy. </p> <p> [[Fine]] Arts or polite arts, are the arts which depend chiefly on the labors of the mind or imagination, and whose object is pleasure as poetry, music, painting and sculpture. </p> <p> The uses of this word are so numerous and indefinite, as to preclude a particular definition of each. In general, fine, in popular language, expresses whatever is excellent, showy or magnificent. </p> <p> FINE, n. This word is the basis of finance, but I have not found it, in its simple form, in any modern language, except the English. The word seems to be the L. finis, and the application of it to pecuniary compensation seems to have proceeded from its feudal use, in the transfer of lands, in which a final agreement or concord was made between the lord and his vassal. </p> 1. In a feudal sense, a final agreement between persons concerning lands or rents, or between the lord and his vassal, prescribing the conditions on which the latter should hold his lands. 2. A sum of money paid to the lord by his tenant, for permission to alienate or transfer his lands to another. This in [[England]] was exacted only from the king's tenants in capite. 3. A sum of money paid to the king or state by way of penalty for an offense a mulet a pecuniary punishment. [[Fines]] are usually prescribed by statute, for the several violations of law or the limit is prescribed, beyond which the judge cannot impose a fine for a particular offense. <p> In fine. L. in and finis. In the end or conclusion to conclude to sum up all. </p> <p> FINE, See Fine, the adjective. </p> 1. To clarify to refine to purify to defecate to free from feculence or foreign matter as, to fine wine. <p> This is the most general use of this word. </p> 2. To purify, as a metal as, to fine gold or silver. In this sense, we now generally use refine but fine is proper. <p> &nbsp;Job 28 . &nbsp;Proverbs 17 . </p> 3. To make less coarse as, to fine grass. Not used. 4. To decorate to adorn. Not in use. <p> FINE, See Fine, the noun. </p> 1. To impose on one a pecuniary penalty, payable to the government, for a crime or breach of law to set a fine on by judgment of a court to punish by fine. The trespassers were fined ten dollars and imprisoned a month. 2. To pay a fine. Not used.

<p> '''(1):''' ''' (''' superl.) Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour. </p> <p> '''(2):''' ''' (''' superl.) Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous. </p> <p> '''(3):''' ''' (''' superl.) Not coarse, gross, or heavy </p> <p> '''(4):''' ''' (''' superl.) Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread. </p> <p> '''(5):''' ''' (''' superl.) Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk. </p> <p> '''(6):''' ''' (''' superl.) Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine. </p> <p> '''(7):''' ''' (''' superl.) (Used ironically.) </p> <p> '''(8):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale will fine; the weather fined. </p> <p> '''(9):''' ''' (''' superl.) [[Aiming]] at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy. </p> <p> '''(10):''' ''' (''' superl.) Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous. </p> <p> '''(11):''' ''' (''' a.) To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil. </p> <p> '''(12):''' ''' (''' a.) To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually. </p> <p> '''(13):''' ''' (''' n.) End; conclusion; termination; extinction. </p> <p> '''(14):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> <p> '''(15):''' ''' (''' n.) A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal. </p> <p> '''(16):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> <p> '''(17):''' ''' (''' n.) 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. </p> <p> '''(18):''' ''' (''' v. i.) To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b). </p> <p> '''(19):''' ''' (''' v. t.) To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease. </p> <p> '''(20):''' ''' (''' adv.) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be deflected but little, the object ball being driven to one side. </p> <p> '''(21):''' ''' (''' superl.) Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful. </p> <p> '''(22):''' ''' (''' adv.) Finely; well; elegantly; fully; delicately; mincingly. </p> <p> '''(23):''' ''' (''' a.) To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold. </p> <p> '''(24):''' ''' (''' superl.) Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge. </p>

<p> <strong> FINE </strong> . The verb ‘to fine’ (mod. ‘refine’) is used in &nbsp; Job 28:1 ‘Surely there is a vein for silver, and a place for gold where they fine it’ (RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘which they refine’). ‘Fining’ occurs in &nbsp; Proverbs 17:3; &nbsp; Proverbs 27:21; and ‘finer’ in &nbsp; Proverbs 25:4 ‘a vessel for the finer’ (Amer. RV [Note: Revised Version.] ‘refiner’). See Refiner. </p>

<p> or mulct for damages (q.v.). In some instances, by the [[Mosaic]] law, the amount of a fine, or of an indemnification that was to be made, was determined by the person who had been injured; in other instances it was fixed by the judge, and in others was defined by the, law (&nbsp;Exodus 21:19-36; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 22:19; &nbsp;Deuteronomy 22:29). Twofold, fourfold, and even fivefold restitution of things stolen, and restitution of property unjustly retained, with twenty percent over and above, was required. Thus, if a man killed a beast, he was to make it good, beast for beast. This ordinance, observes Michaelis ''(Laws Of Moses,'' art. 160), appears only incidentally in &nbsp;Leviticus 24:18, among criminal laws. If an ox pushed or gored another man's servant to death, his owner was bound to pay for the servant thirty shekels of silver (&nbsp;Exodus 21:32). In the case of one man's ox pushing or goring another's to death, it would have been a very intricate point to ascertain which of the two had been to blame for the quarrel, and therefore both owners were obliged to bear the loss. The living ox was sold, and the price, together with the dead one, equally divided between them (&nbsp;Exodus 21:35). If, however, the ox had previously been notorious for pushing, and the owner had not taken care to confine him, this made a difference; for then, to the man whose ox had been pushed, he was obliged to give another, and the dead ox he got himself (&nbsp;Exodus 21:36). If a- man dug a pit and did not cover it, or let an old pit belonging to him remain open, and another man's beast fell into it, the owner of the pit was obliged to pay for the beast, and had it for the payment (&nbsp;Exodus 21:33-34). When a fire was kindled in the fields, and did any damage, he who kindled it was obliged to make the damage good (&nbsp;Exodus 22:6). (See [[Punishment]]). </p>