a. Also 6–9 finish, 7 fynish. [f. FINE a. + -ISH.] † a. Affecting refinement, fastidious (obs.). b. Somewhat fine, in various senses of that word.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, etc. (Arb.), 145.
| Tyndarus attempting too kis a fayre lasse with a long nose, | |
| Would needs bee finish, with bitter frumperye taunting. |
a. 1639. W. Whately, Prototypes, II. xxx. (1640), 103. An idle, coy, finish maide is so much the more disdained of wise persons, by how much she doth more disdaine labour in any profitable businesse for which God did make men.
1647. Ward, The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America, 86. I have here and there taken a few finish stitches, which may haply please a few Velvet ears.
1650. Ward, Discolliminium, 48. My habit is somwhat fynish as other Gentlemen are, and I am thinking to change that also.
1832. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. V. (1863), 344. Ital. A fineish girl.
1867. Carlyle, Remin. (1881), II. 165. He [Charles Lamb] was the leanest of mankind, tiny black breeches buttoned to the knee-cap and no further, surmounting spindle-legs also in black, face and head fineish, black, bony, lean, and of a Jew type rather.
