FPage 131
- English Word Finesse Definition To use artifice or stratagem.
- English Word Finesse Definition To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.
- English Word Finessed Definition of Finesse
- English Word Finessing Definition of Finesse
- English Word Finestill Definition To distill, as spirit from molasses or some saccharine preparation.
- English Word Finestiller Definition One who finestills.
- English Word Finew Definition Moldiness.
- English Word Finfish Definition A finback whale.
- English Word Finfish Definition True fish, as distinguished from shellfish.
- English Word Finfoot Definition A South American bird (heliornis fulica) allied to the grebes. The name is also applied to several related species of the genus Podica.
- English Word Finger Definition One of the five terminating members of the hand; a digit; esp., one of the four extermities of the hand, other than the thumb.
- English Word Finger Definition Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion.
- English Word Finger Definition The breadth of a finger, or the fourth part of the hand; a measure of nearly an inch; also, the length of finger, a measure in domestic use in the United States, of about four and a half inches or one eighth of a yard.
- English Word Finger Definition Skill in the use of the fingers, as in playing upon a musical instrument.
- English Word Finger Definition To touch with the fingers; to handle; to meddle with.
- English Word Finger Definition To touch lightly; to toy with.
- English Word Finger Definition To perform on an instrument of music.
- English Word Finger Definition To mark the notes of (a piece of music) so as to guide the fingers in playing.
- English Word Finger Definition To take thievishly; to pilfer; to purloin.
- English Word Finger Definition To execute, as any delicate work.