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.

 

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