Definition of Finry
Fin"er*y (?), n. 1.
Fineness; beauty. [Obs.]
Don't choose your place of study by the finery
of the prospects. I. Watts.
2. Ornament; decoration; especially,
excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
Her mistress' cast-off finery.
F. W. Robertson.
3. [Cf. Refinery.] (Iron Works)
A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron
into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- Fineness; beauty.
- Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
- (Iron Works) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
Quotations
*1957: In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining. — H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 160.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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