financier (finanor finanser)

[Formerly sometimes written financeer; The most judicious tax which a financier could devise would excite murmurs if it were called the Ship money. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xxiii. 2. One skilled in financial operations, whether public, corporate, or individual; one who un- der stands money matters. Sidney, lord, and subsequently earl Go dolphin, next to Halifax the most experienced financier of the age, was, on the advice of Marl borough, appointed lord treasurer. S. Dowell, Taxes in England, II. 68. 3. In France, formerly, a receiver or farmer of the public revenues. financier (fin-an or fi-nan-ser'), v. [Formerly also written financeer; finch 2. Any small conirostral oscine pa erine bird, as of the family Ploceidæ or Tana grid a ; a wea- ver-bird or tanager. - 3. Loosely, in compos i- tion, some other small bird, as the fallow- finch . - Angola finch, a kind of serin finch, Serinus an go lens is. Latham , 1783. - Bell's finch, Amphispiza bell i , of western parts of the United States: named for J. G. Bell , a noted taxidermist of New York. Black-and-orange finch, Melophus mel an icterus , a crested bunting of Asia. La- tham , 1783.- Black-faced finch, a South American crest- ed finch, Cory phosphin gus cristatus. - Black-throated finch, Amphispiza bilineata , of the western parts of the United States. Blanding's finch, Pipilo chlorurus , of the western parts of the United States. Also called green- tailed sparrow. - Bramble-finch. Same as brambling.- Brisk finch, the chaffinch. [Local, Eng.] - Bud-finch, the bullfinch. Also bud-bird, bud - picker . - Cardinal- finch. Same as cardinal - bird . - Ca in's finch. (a) A kind of purple finch, Carpodacus ca ini , closely resembling the common species, but larger, inhabiting southwestern parts of the United States: named for the famous orni- thologist John Ca in , of Philadelphia. (b) Peucœa ca i- ni , a kind of summer finch of southwestern parts of the United States: named for the same. - Cherry-finch, the hawfinch, Coccothraustes vulgar is : from its fondne for cherry-pits.- Chinese finch, a kind of green finch, Ligu- rinu inica. Latham , 1783.- Cinereous finch, the large gray song-sparrow of the Aleutian islands and other parts of Alaska, Melospiza cinerea. Latham, 1783; Pennant , 1785.-Citril-finch. Same as citril . Latham , 1783.- copper finch, the chaffinch: so called from the chestnut color of the breast. [Devons hire and Cornwall, Eng.]- Crimson finch. Same as purple finch . Coues. Crim- son-fronted finch. Same as house-finch. Crimson- headed finch, the common purple finch of Europe and Asia, Carpodacus erythrinus. Latham, 1789. - Fasciated finch, the common song-sparrow of the United States, Melospiza melodia or M. fasci at a : a name given by La- tham in 1783. - Fox-finch, the fox-sparrow (which see). See also Pa er ell a . - Gold finch. (a) See goldfinch . ( b ) The yellow-hammer. [Local, Eng.] Gra -finch, the bay-winged bunting, Poæcetes gramineus; the vesper- bird, one of the commonest sparrows of the United States. Green finch. (a) See greenfinch . (b) The Texas spar- row, Embernagra rufovirgata . See Embernagra . Har- ris's finch, Zonotrichia querula , the hooded crown-spar- row, of interior parts of the United States and British America. - Horse-finch, the chaffinch. [Local, Eng.]- House-finch, the burion or crimson-fronted purple finch, Carpodacus frontal is : so called from its domesticity in New Mexico, Arizona, and California. Indigo-finch. Same as indigo - bird . - Lapland finch, the longspur, Cen- trophanes lapponicus . Latham , 1783.- Lark-finch, the lark-sparrow, Chondestes grammica. See Chondestes.- Lazuli-finch, a kind of painted finch, Pa er in a amæna . See lazuli . Le er pied mountain-finch, the snow- bunting, Plectrophanes nival is . - Lincoln's finch, Melo- spiza lincoln i , closely related to the song-sparrow and swamp-sparrow, of plain spotted and streaked coloration with a buff band acro the breast, found nearly all over North America: named for one Robert Lincoln , sometime a companion of Audubon. Linnet-finch, the linnet, Linota cannabin a. - Long-tailed finch, Emberizoides macrura . See Emberizoides . Maze-finch, the chaffinch. to engage in financial scheming or irregular (Cornwall, Eng.] - Mountain-finch. (a) The brambling. pecuniary transactions. II. trans. To act as financier for; manage or contrive ways and means for; finance. financiering (fin-an or fi-nan-ser'ing), n. The management of financial operations. In 1836 the political circumstances of the country were in general ill calculated to evolve sound or even careful financiering.