finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.-aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.-nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.-not coarse, gross, or heavy-not gross; subtile; thin; tenous.-not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.-not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.-thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.-made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.-having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.-(used ironically.)-to make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.-to make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.-to change by fine gradations; as (naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.-end; conclusion; termination; extinction.-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.-a final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.-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.-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.-to pay a fine. see fine, n., 3 (b).-to finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.