Crossword clues for fining
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fining \Fin"ing\, n.
The act of imposing a fin?.
The process of fining or refining; clarification; also (Metal.), the conversion of cast iron into suitable for puddling, in a hearth or charcoal fire.
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That which is used to refine; especially, a preparation of isinglass, gelatin, etc., for clarifying beer.
Fining pot, a vessel in which metals are refined.
--Prov. xvii. 3.
Fine \Fine\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fined (f[imac]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Fining.] [From Fine, a.]
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To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.
It hath been fined and refined by . . . learned men.
--Hobbes. To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.
--L. H. Bailey.-
To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.
I often sate at home On evenings, watching how they fined themselves With gradual conscience to a perfect night.
--Browning.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of fine English)
Wikipedia
Fining can be:
- Finings, additives to beer or wine, see also fining (wine)
- Fining, metallurgy process done in a finery forge
Usage examples of "fining".
Tresses, Sweet Bay, Spider Lily, Button Bush, Love Vine, Seedbox, awarding him an imaginary dollar for every one he got right and fining him two for the ones he got wrong.
It involved, he said, hearing both sides if there was an objection to a winner and awarding the race justly to the more deserving, and, yes, summoning jockeys and trainers for minor infringements of the rules and fining them a fiver or a tenner a time.
All kajidic representatives in favor of officially censuring and fining Besadii-vote now, yes or no, on the motion.
Tricking the New Destinies into giving her a cover story by fining her had been a good idea.
And thus is kept up a state of things very satisfactory to some minds, because, without the unpleasant process of fining or imprisoning anybody, it maintains all prevailing opinions outwardly undisturbed, while it does not absolutely interdict the exercise of reason by dissentients afflicted with the malady of thought.
First of all, he pronounced the property of Tiberius Gracchus to be forfeited to the gods because in fining and distraining upon a man who had appealed to a tribune, he had not yielded to his veto and had impugned his authority.
What he did gather was that the ABO system had been discovered as far back as 1900 but that since then a dozen or so other systems had been found, including the Rhesus 89 one, and all these could be tested for, thus fining down even further the possibilities of whose blood was whose.
The only effective solution to a natural monopoly is for the government to create artificial competition by setting standards (off the top of my head, for example: no box cutters on airplanes) and fining airports that fail random spot checks.
Of more merit were those methods classed as divination, in which signs were scried in the client's physiognomy, as in metascopy or chiromancy, or in the landscape, or in dust cast on a mirror (Syle said that gold was best, but the finings of any metal were better than ordinary dust or the husks of rice grains used by village witches).
It was more money than Trumper's and all its fixtures and finings were worth put together.
All the Bohemians are doing is fining her for back inheritance taxes.
Ladies' Tresses, Sweet Bay, Spider Lily, Button Bush, Love Vine, Seedbox, awarding him an imaginary dollar for every one he got right and fining him two for the ones he got wrong.
All of this was inside the castle, of course, between the walls con -- fining the regular functions.
All of this was inside the castle, of course, between the walls con- fining the regular functions.