Word Meanings - APIECE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Each by itself; by the single one; to each; as the share of each; as, these melons cost a shilling apiece. "Fined . . . a thousand pounds apiece." Hume.

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• FINNED
  Having a fin, or fins, or anything resembling a fin. Mortimer.
• FINITUDE
  Limitation. Cheyne.
• SINGLE-BREASTED
  Lapping over the breast only far enough to permit of buttoning, and having buttons on one edge only; as, a single-breasted coast.
• FINDER
  One who, or that which, finds; specifically , a small telescope of low power and large field of view, attached to a larger telescope, for the purpose of finding an object more readily.
• FINBACK
  Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balænoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balænopteridæ, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.
• FINLET
  A little fin; one of the parts of a divided fin.
• FINESSE
  The act of finessing. See Finesse, v. i., 2. (more info) 1. Subtilty of contrivance to gain a point; artifice; stratagem. This is the artificialest piece of finesse to persuade men into slavery. Milton.
• FINISHER
  1. One who finishes, puts an end to, completes, or perfects; esp. used in the trades, as in hatting, weaving, etc., for the workman who gives a finishing touch to the work, or any part of it, and brings it to perfection. O prophet of glad tidings,
• FINESTILLER
  One who finestills.
• SHAREBEAM
  The part of the plow to which the share is attached.
• FINNISH
  Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language. -- n.
• FINIS
  An end; conclusion. It is often placed at the end of a book.
• SHILL
  To shell.
• FINEDRAW
  To sew up, so nicely that the seam is not perceived; to renter. Marryat.
• FINANCIAL
  Pertaining to finance. "Our financial and commercial system." Macaulay.
• FINNS
  Natives of Finland; Finlanders. A branch of the Mongolian race, inhabiting Northern and Eastern Europe, including the Magyars, Bulgarians, Permians, Lapps, and Finlanders.
• FINBAT KITE
  = Eddy kite.
• SINGLE-ACTING
  Having simplicity of action; especially , acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.
• FIN-FOOTED
  Having palmate feet. Having lobate toes, as the coot and grebe.
• FINT
  3d pers. sing. pr. of Find, for findeth. Chaucer.
• HUFFINESS
  The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper. Ld. Lytton.
• DIFFINE
  To define. Chaucer.
• SPLIT INFINITIVE
  A simple infinitive with to, having a modifier between the verb and the to; as in, to largely decrease. Called also cleft infinitive.
• AFFINITIVE
  Closely connected, as by affinity.
• GOLDFINNY
  One of two or more species of European labroid fishes ; -- called also goldsinny, and goldney.
• INFINITESIMAL
  Infinitely or indefinitely small; less than any assignable quantity or value; very small. Infinitesimal calculus, the different and the integral calculus, when developed according to the method used by Leibnitz, who regarded the increments given
• YAFFINGALE
  The yaffle.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• PREDEFINE
  To define beforehand.
• AFFINE
  To refine. Holland.
• SUPERFINE
  1. Very fine, or most fine; being of surpassing fineness; of extra nice or fine quality; as, superfine cloth. 2. Excessively fine; too nice; over particular; as, superfine distinctions; superfine tastes.
• SILVERFIN
  A small North American fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Notropis Whipplei).
• PREFINE
  To limit beforehand. Knolles.