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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Fin

Fin (fin)
v. t.(?)
Fin
[imp. *** p. p. Finned (?)] p. pr. *** vb. n. Finning.] [Cf. Fin of a fish.]
  1. To carve or cut up, as a chub.

Fin

Fin (fin)
n.
Fin
  1. End] conclusion; object.
    [Obs.] "She knew eke the fin of his intent." Chaucer.

Fin

Fin (fin)
n.
Fin
  1. 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.

    * 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. 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)
  4. A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

    Apidose fin. (Zoöl.) 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 (Zoöl.), a finback. -- Paired fins (Zoöl.), the pectoral and ventral fins, corresponding to the fore and hind legs of the higher animals. -- Unpaired, or Median, fins (Zoöl.), the dorsal, caudal, and anal fins.

Fin

Fin (fin)
n.
Fin
  1. A fixed stabilizing surface, usually vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.












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