·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.