Fin
Webster's Dictionary [1]
(1):
(n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
(2):
(n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.
(3):
(n.) A blade of whalebone.
(4):
(n.) End; conclusion; object.
(5):
(n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
(6):
(n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
(7):
(n.) A feather; a spline.
(8):
(n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
(9):
(n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin
(10):
(n.) The hand.
(11):
(v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.
(12):
(n.) A fixed stabilizing surface, usually vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [2]
See Fish .
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [3]
(סְנֵפַּיר, senappir', of uncertain etymol.), the fin of a fish (q.v.), a distinctive mark of such as might be eaten under the Mosaic law (Leviticus 11:9-10; Leviticus 11:12; Deuteronomy 14:9-10). (See Clean).
