Fin

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A feather; a spline.

II. Fin ·noun A blade of whalebone.

III. Fin ·noun End; conclusion; object.

IV. Fin ·noun The Hand.

V. Fin ·vt To carve or cut up, as a chub.

VI. Fin ·noun A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

VII. Fin ·noun A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.

VIII. Fin ·noun A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.

IX. Fin ·noun A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin.

X. Fin ·noun The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.

XI. Fin ·add. ·noun A fixed stabilizing surface, usually vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.

XII. Fin ·noun 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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