| Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub. 2. (n.) End; conclusion; object. 3. (n.) 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. 4. (n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks. 5. (n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin 6. (n.) The hand. 7. (n.) A blade of whalebone. 8. (n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold. 9. (n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling. 10. (n.) A feather; a spline. 11. (n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia FIN See FISH. |