These are the meanings of the letters AFINE when you unscramble them.
- Fain (a.)
Satisfied; contented; also, constrained.
- Fain (a.)
Well-pleased; glad; apt; wont; fond; inclined.
- Fain (adv.)
With joy; gladly; -- with wold.
- Fain (v. t. & i.)
To be glad ; to wish or desire.
- Fane (n.)
A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church.
- Fane (n.)
A weathercock.
- 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.
- Naif (a.)
Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.
- Naif (a.)
Naive; as, a naif remark.
- Neif (n.)
Alt. of Neaf
- Neif (n.)
Alt. of Neife