finewt (finu)

[ finewed (fin'ud), a. [Also written fenowed, also vinewed, vinnewed (E. dial., etc.); The old moth-eaten leaden legend, and the foisty and fenowed festival are yet secretly laid up in corners. J. Favour , Antiquities, Triumph over Novelty (1619), [p. 334. A souldier's hands must oft be died with goare, Lest, starke with rest, they finew'd waxe, and hoare. Mir. for Mags., p. 417. finewedne t (fin'üd-nes), n. [Also vinewed ne , vin newed ne .] The state or quality of being finewed or moldy; mustine ; moldine . finfeet, n. Plural of finfoot . fin-fish (fin'fish), n. A fish of the family Polyp- teride ; a fin-pike. fin-fold (fin'fold), n. In ichth ., a fold of the skin of the embryo fish in which fin-rays are developed. finger Specifically - (a) In zool., one of the two parts forming a chelate or forceps-joint, especially the smaller part, which hinges on the other. (b) In mach., any small wood or metal projection on a machine, for parting materials or arresting motion, as the tooth of a rake, the gripper in printing-pre es, or the wires of a stop-motion: as, the fin gers of a harvester, in and between which the knives play. In Webster's loom (1872) a temporary race is formed by means of " fingers ," inserted and withdrawn at proper times, and two shuttles may be thrown separately or simultaneously. A. Barlow, Weaving, p. 214. Pa ing through pointed sheaths now called fingers. Ure, Dict., IV. 18. 3. (a) A measure of length, a finger-breadth, commonly a natural finger-breadth. A finger of liquor is a quantity in a tumbler one natural finger-breadth deep. The shot in a gun was similarly measured upon the ramrod, and still is where muzzle-loaders are used. See finger-breadth. Yet he fayled of the garlonde, Thre fyngers and mare. Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 114). Their armes are clubbes or woodden swords, fiue or sixe foote long, and a foote broad, a finger thicke, and very sharpe. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 843. T. Hill , Arithmetic (1600). Upon entering the door [of the magazine], one of the guns, which had a spring to it, and was charged eight fin gers deep with swan-shot, went off. 4 fingers make 1 hand breadth. Wirt , Patrick Henry, p. 168. A finger , in Mexican law, is the sixteenth part of a foot, and is divided into three straws or into four grains. Hall , Mexican Law, p. 79. 3 jows make 1 unglee or finger , inch. Wool house, Measures of Bengal. doa; one of the sun-birds, as Heliornis sur i namensis or H. senega lens is.-2. Pl. finfeet. A swimming-foot; a pleiopod, as of a crustacean. Which appendages [abdominal legs of stomatopods]. are used in swimming, or are fin - feet. G. Cuvier, Règne Animal (tr. 1849), p. 423. fin-footed (fin'futed), a . 1. Having palmated feet, or feet with toes connected by a membrane; web-footed; palmiped.-2. In ornith., pinnatiped; having pinnate feet, the toes being separately furnished with flaps, as in the grebes, coots, phalaropes, fin Fin-footed (Coot). foots, etc.-3. In Mollusca, pteropod. Also fin - toed.