Definition of fin

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Fin (n.) 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..

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Cubit :: Cubit (n.) A measure of length, being the distance from the elbow to the extremity of the middle finger..
Fin-footed :: Fin-footed (a.) Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe..
Pull :: Pull (v. t.) To gather with the hand, or by drawing toward one; to pluck; as, to pull fruit; to pull flax; to pull a finch..
Adultery :: Adultery (n.) The fine and penalty imposed for the offense of adultery.
Mince :: Mince (v. t.) To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat..
Supinity :: Supine (n.) A verbal noun; or (according to C.F.Becker), a case of the infinitive mood ending in -um and -u, that in -um being sometimes called the former supine, and that in -u the latter supine..
Conclude :: Conclude (v. i.) To form a final judgment; to reach a decision.
Sting :: Sting (v. t.) Any sharp organ of offense and defense, especially when connected with a poison gland, and adapted to inflict a wound by piercing; as the caudal sting of a scorpion. The sting of a bee or wasp is a modified ovipositor. The caudal sting, or spine, of a sting ray is a modified dorsal fin ray. The term is sometimes applied to the fang of a serpent. See Illust. of Scorpion..
Test :: Test (v. t.) To refine, as gold or silver, in a test, or cupel; to subject to cupellation..
Find :: Find (v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire.
Purport :: Purport (n.) To intend to show; to intend; to mean; to signify; to import; -- often with an object clause or infinitive.
Repertitious :: Repertitious (a.) Found; gained by finding.
March :: March (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales..
Pounce :: Pounce (n.) A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript..
Screw :: Screw (n.) A straight line in space with which a definite linear magnitude termed the pitch is associated (cf. 5th Pitch, 10 (b)). It is used to express the displacement of a rigid body, which may always be made to consist of a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to that axis..
Alloy :: Alloy (v. t.) A baser metal mixed with a finer.
Crescent :: Crescent (n.) The increasing moon; the moon in her first quarter, or when defined by a concave and a convex edge; also, applied improperly to the old or decreasing moon in a like state..
Diffinitive :: Diffinitive (a.) Definitive; determinate; final.
Break :: Break (v. t.) To destroy the financial credit of; to make bankrupt; to ruin.
Hippogriff :: Hippogriff (n.) A fabulous winged animal, half horse and half griffin..
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