Fin"ger*ling (?), n. [Finger + -ling.] (Zoˆl.) A young salmon. See
Parr.
Fin"gle-fan`gle (?), n. [From fangle.] A trifle. [Low] Hudibras.
||Fin"gri*go (?), n.; pl. Fingrigos (#). [So called in Jamaica.] (Bot.)
||A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind
||of berry.
Fin"i*al (?), n. [L. finire to finish, end. See Finish.] (Arch.) The
knot or bunch of foliage, or foliated ornament, that forms the upper
extremity of a pinnacle in Gothic architecture; sometimes, the pinnacle
itself.
Fin"i*cal (?), a. [From Fine, a.] Affectedly fine; overnice; unduly
particular; fastidious. "Finical taste." Wordsworth.
The gross style consists in giving no detail, the finical in giving
nothing else.
Hazlitt.
Syn. -- Finical, Spruce, Foppish. These words are applied to persons
who are studiously desirous to cultivate finery of appearance. One who
is spruce is elaborately nice in dress; one who is finical shows his
affectation in language and manner as well as in dress; one who is
foppish distinguishes himself by going to the extreme of the fashion in
the cut of his clothes, by the tawdriness of his ornaments, and by the
ostentation of his manner. "A finical gentleman clips his words and
screws his body into as small a compass as possible, to give himself
the air of a delicate person; a spruce gentleman strives not to have a
fold wrong in his frill or cravat, nor a hair of his head to lie amiss;
a foppish gentleman seeks . . . to render himself distinguished for
finery." Crabb.
-- Fin"i*cal*ly, adv. -- Fin"i*cal*ness, n.
Fin`i*cal"i*ty (?), n. The quality of being finical; finicalness.
{ Fin"ick*ing (?), Fin"ick*y, a. } Finical; unduly particular.
[Colloq.]
Fi*nif"ic (? or ?), n. [L. finis end + facere to make.] A limiting
element or quality. [R.]
The essential finific in the form of the finite.
Coleridge.
Fin"i*fy (? or ?), v. t. [Fine, a. + -fy.] To make fine; to dress
finically. [Obs.]