FINESSE
\fɪnˈɛs], \fɪnˈɛs], \f_ɪ_n_ˈɛ_s]\
Definitions of FINESSE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2.
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To use artifice or stratagem.
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To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.
By Oddity Software
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The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2.
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To use artifice or stratagem.
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To attempt, when second or third player, to make a lower card answer the purpose of a higher, when an intermediate card is out, risking the chance of its being held by the opponent yet to play.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By James Champlin Fernald
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; finessing at cards.
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To use artifice; to attempt to take a trick with a low card so as to make sure of a second with a higher.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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