These are the meanings of the letters IENFW when you unscramble them.
- Fine (a.)
To change by fine gradations; as (Naut.), to fine down a ship's lines, to diminish her lines gradually.
- Fine (a.)
To make fine; to refine; to purify, to clarify; as, to fine gold.
- Fine (a.)
To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.; as. to fine the soil.
- Fine (n.)
A final agreement concerning lands or rents between persons, as the lord and his vassal.
- Fine (n.)
A sum of money or price paid for obtaining a benefit, favor, or privilege, as for admission to a copyhold, or for obtaining or renewing a lease.
- Fine (n.)
A sum of money paid as the settlement of a claim, or by way of terminating a matter in dispute; especially, a payment of money imposed upon a party as a punishment for an offense; a mulct.
- Fine (n.)
End; conclusion; termination; extinction.
- Fine (n.)
To impose a pecuniary penalty upon for an offense or breach of law; to set a fine on by judgment of a court; to punish by fine; to mulct; as, the trespassers were fined ten dollars.
- Fine (superl.)
(Used ironically.)
- Fine (superl.)
Aiming at show or effect; loaded with ornament; overdressed or overdecorated; showy.
- Fine (superl.)
Finished; brought to perfection; refined; hence, free from impurity; excellent; superior; elegant; worthy of admiration; accomplished; beautiful.
- Fine (superl.)
Having (such) a proportion of pure metal in its composition; as, coins nine tenths fine.
- Fine (superl.)
Made of fine materials; light; delicate; as, fine linen or silk.
- Fine (superl.)
Nice; delicate; subtle; exquisite; artful; skillful; dexterous.
- Fine (superl.)
Not coarse, gross, or heavy
- Fine (superl.)
Not coarse; comminuted; in small particles; as, fine sand or flour.
- Fine (superl.)
Not gross; subtile; thin; tenous.
- Fine (superl.)
Not thick or heavy; slender; filmy; as, a fine thread.
- Fine (superl.)
Thin; attenuate; keen; as, a fine edge.
- Fine (v. i.)
To pay a fine. See Fine, n., 3 (b).
- Fine (v. t.)
To finish; to cease; or to cause to cease.
- Neif (n.)
Alt. of Neaf
- Neif (n.)
Alt. of Neife
- Wife (n.)
A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.
- Wife (n.)
The lawful consort of a man; a woman who is united to a man in wedlock; a woman who has a husband; a married woman; -- correlative of husband.
- Wine (n.)
A liquor or beverage prepared from the juice of any fruit or plant by a process similar to that for grape wine; as, currant wine; gooseberry wine; palm wine.
- Wine (n.)
The effect of drinking wine in excess; intoxication.
- Wine (n.)
The expressed juice of grapes, esp. when fermented; a beverage or liquor prepared from grapes by squeezing out their juice, and (usually) allowing it to ferment.