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noun

Fin n. End; conclusion; object. (Obs.) "She knew eke the fin of his intent."

Fin n.

1.

(Zool.) 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. Note: Fishes move through the water chiefly by means of the caudal fin or tail, the principal office of the other fins being to balance or direct the body, though they are also, to a certain extent, employed in producing motion.

2.

(Zool.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.

3.

A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin, as:

(a)

The hand. (Slang)

(b)

(Com.) A blade of whalebone. (Eng.)

(c)

(Mech.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.

(d)

(Mech.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.

(e)

(Mech.) A feather; a spline.

4.

A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

5.

(Aeronautics) A fixed stabilizing surface, usually vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.

Apidose fin. (Zool.) See under Adipose, a.

Fin ray (Anat.), one of the hornlike, cartilaginous, or bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of fishes.

Fin whale (Zool.), a finback.

Paired fins (Zool.), the pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the higher animals.

Unpaired fins, or Median fins (Zool.), the dorsal, caudal, and anal fins.

verb

Fin v. t. (past & past part. finned; pres. part. finning) To carve or cut up, as a chub.

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Etymology of 'Fin'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fin" Quotes from Famous Books

... green of the water something moved, something pale and long—a ghastly form. It vanished; and yet another came, neared the surface, and displayed itself more fully. Lestrange saw its eyes, he saw the dark fin, and the whole hideous length of the creature; a shudder ran through him as ...

— The Blue Lagoon - A Romance • H. de Vere Stacpoole

... axis, nor moved wholly to man's ends. This sea that stretched away unheaving was not sublimely dead—even to the vulgar apprehension—but penetrated with quivering sensibility, the exquisite fresh feeling of fishes darting and gliding, tingling with life in fin and tail, chasing and chased, zestfully eating or swiftly eaten: in the air the ecstasy of flight, on the earth the happy movements of animals, the very dust palpitating pleasurably with crawling and creeping populations, the soil riddled ...

— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... Luis explained nervously because of the look in the black, unreadable eyes of this straight, slim Indian girl who was so beautiful—and so silent. "They go muy fas', Ramon an' Beel. Poco tiempo—sure, we fin' dem little soon." ...

— The Heritage of the Sioux • B.M. Bower

... majestic violence, that it were impious to whimper. Who beachcombed my three rudders, the one toilfully adzed out in one piece from the beautiful heart of a bean-tree log, another cunningly fitted with a sliding fin, and that of red cedar with famous brass mountings? Who owns the pair of ballast tanks once mine? Who the buoy deemed securely moored? Who the paddles and the rowlocks and the signal halyards, lost because of Neptune's whims and violence? Beachcombing is a nicely adjusted, if not ...

— The Confessions of a Beachcomber • E J Banfield

... Southeastern Branch, and there became j and z, while in the Northwestern Branch the same g was frequently labialized and became gv, v, andb. Hence, where we have ja in Sanskrit, we may and do fin ...

— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller

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