Dictionary

Fine champagne; French brandy.

(usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.

Example: They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.

To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.

Example: to fine gold

To become finer, purer, or cleaner.

To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.

Example: to fine the soil

To change by fine gradations.

Example: to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually

Senses referring to subjective quality.

Senses referring to objective quality.

Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.

Example: [...] to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four [...]

Subtle; thin; tenuous.

Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.

Well, nicely, in a positive way.

Example: Everything worked out fine.

Finely; elegantly; delicately.

In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.

A fee levied as punishment for breaking the law.

Example: The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.

To issue a fine as punishment to (someone).

Example: She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.

To pay a fine.

The end of a musical composition.

The location in a musical score that indicates the end of the piece, particularly when the piece ends somewhere in the middle of the score due to a section of the music being repeated.

End; conclusion; termination; extinction.

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 finish; to cease.

To cause to cease; to stop.