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Fin   /fɪn/   Listen
noun
Fin  n.  End; conclusion; object. (Obs.) "She knew eke the fin of his intent."


Fin  n.  
1.
(Zool.) 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. Note: Fishes move through the water chiefly by means of the caudal fin or tail, the principal office of the other fins being to balance or direct the body, though they are also, to a certain extent, employed in producing motion.
2.
(Zool.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.
3.
A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin, as:
(a)
The hand. (Slang)
(b)
(Com.) A blade of whalebone. (Eng.)
(c)
(Mech.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.
(d)
(Mech.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.
(e)
(Mech.) A feather; a spline.
4.
A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.
5.
(Aeronautics) A fixed stabilizing surface, usually vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.
Apidose fin. (Zool.) See under Adipose, a.
Fin ray (Anat.), one of the hornlike, cartilaginous, or bony, dermal rods which form the skeleton of the fins of fishes.
Fin whale (Zool.), a finback.
Paired fins (Zool.), the pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the higher animals.
Unpaired fins, or Median fins (Zool.), the dorsal, caudal, and anal fins.


verb
Fin  v. t.  (past & past part. finned; pres. part. finning)  To carve or cut up, as a chub.





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... remain open. The Lamarckian and Weismannist theories are rival interpretations of past events, and we shall not find it necessary to press either. When the fish comes to live on land, for instance, it develops a bony limb out of its fin. The Lamarckian says that the throwing of the weight of the body on the main stem of the fin strengthens it, as practice strengthens the boxer's arm, and the effect is inherited and increased in each generation, ...
— The Story of Evolution • Joseph McCabe
... on diff'rent farms till I marries and my fust wife am Emma Williams and a cullud preacher marries us at her house. Us picked cotton after dat and den I rents a place on de halvers for five year and after sev'ral years I buys eighty acres of land. Fin'ly us done paid dat out and done some repairs and den us sep'rate after livin' twenty-three year together. So I gives dat place to her and de six chillen and I walks out ready to start ...
— Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves - Texas Narratives, Part 1 • Works Projects Administration
... sperm whales," said Larry, "their spouts ar'n't bushy enough; they ar'n't Sulphur-bottoms, or they wouldn't stay up so long; they ar'n't Hump-backs, for they ar'n't got any humps; they ar'n't Fin-backs, for you won't catch a Finback so near a ship; they ar'n't Greenland whales, for we ar'n't off the coast of Greenland; and they ar'n't right whales, for it wouldn't be right to say so. I tell ...
— Redburn. His First Voyage • Herman Melville
... and another long flash of bluish light, and this time it was alongside the boat, and might almost have been reached with an oar. The correspondent saw an enormous fin speed like a shadow through the water, hurling the crystalline spray and ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane
... get plenty more that way, and then he never sold another story. It was too bad. He's a real gentleman, though you might not think it to look at him now, not shaved, and all. He thought he could earn a thousand every week, I s'pose, poor fellow. He got work in a department store, fin'ly, and it took all he made to bury her. She was a sweet little thing, but soft. I was real ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon


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