The Collaborative International Dictionary
Finned \Finned\, a.
Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin.
--Mortimer.
Fin \Fin\ (f[i^]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Finned; p. pr. & vb. n. Finning.] [Cf. Fin of a fish.] To carve or cut up, as a chub.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-14c., adjective in past participle form from fin.
Wiktionary
a. Having fins.
WordNet
n. the cardinal number that is the sum of four and one [syn: five, 5, V, cinque, quint, quintet, fivesome, quintuplet, pentad, Phoebe, Little Phoebe]
one of a pair of decorations projecting above the rear fenders of an automobile [syn: tail fin, tailfin]
one of a set of parallel slats in a door or window to admit air and reject rain [syn: louver, louvre]
a shoe for swimming; the paddle-like front is an aid in swimming (especially underwater) [syn: flipper, flippers, fins]
a stabilizer that resembles the fins of a fish
organ of locomotion and balance in fishes and some other aquatic animals
v. equip (a car) with fins
propel oneself through the water in a finning motion
show the fins above the water while swimming; "The sharks were finning near the surface" [syn: break water]
See fin
Usage examples of "finned".
He had shot those finned devils, which do evil things to the hind-quarters of horses and give them a disease called the mal de Caderas, into mice.
Their mice turned blue from this dye and yellow from that one, but the beastly finned trypanosomes of the mal de Caderas swarmed gayly in their veins, and killed those mice, one hundred out of every hundred!
The pilot took a wooden handled screwdriver from his back-pocket and methodically began to tighten the unshielded wires that bridged the magneto to the sparkplugs atop each of the finned, gray steel cylinders.
He and his agemates had hunted in the sea for tasty mirrat, small finned swimmers which only migrated through the area at that time of the orbital cycle.
Below this they were scaled and finned, the sinuous sea monster bodies ending in a predator's narrow-forked caudal fin.
The builders, whoever they were, had studded the surfaceapparently at randomwith enormous, jet black metallic structures, most of them circumscribed by high, circular walls and ringed with what certainly looked like colossal disrupter cannon emplacementsgreat crystalline spheres plated over for nearly a hemisphere where they were pierced by two slender, finned rods that must have reached two hundred irals in length.
He swam over the engines, the blades of their propellers gracefully bent backward, like the curled petals of an iris, the finned cylinder heads never to feel the heat of combustion again.
And they drew forth from their seines living monsters as well, such as their eldest captains had never beheld: things triple-headed and tailed and finned with horror.
The amount of infrared radiation leaving the finned coolers had to exceed the few photons coming in in order for the temperature of the helium to drop far enough.
The Mark II Martlets were cylindrical finned projectiles, about eight inches wide and five feet six inches long.
Space radiators mounted along the finned side of the pod were beginning to glow reddish orange as super-Tesla coils pumped enormous power to the new Drive crystal.
There were members of every race in the Galaxy that Kirk had ever seen, plus a sizeable number that he hadn't Tall, short, fat, thin, winged, finned, biped, triped, quadruped.
She caught a white perch, was finned trying to get it off the hook, and cussed—.