Fine

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.