FINERY
\fˈa͡ɪnəɹɪ], \fˈaɪnəɹɪ], \f_ˈaɪ_n_ə_ɹ_ɪ]\
Definitions of FINERY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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Fineness; beauty.
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Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
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A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
By Oddity Software
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Fineness; beauty.
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Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
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A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Splendor, fine or showy things; a place where anything is fined or refined; a furnace for making iron making iron malleable.
By Daniel Lyons
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n. Ornament; decoration; especially, showy or excessive decoration;—a refinery; a furnace for making iron malleable.
By Thomas Sheridan
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