Bible Dictionaries
Fin

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A membranous, finlike, swimming organ, as in pteropod and heteropod mollusks.

(2):

(n.) An organ of a fish, consisting of a membrane supported by rays, or little bony or cartilaginous ossicles, and serving to balance and propel it in the water.

(3):

(n.) A blade of whalebone.

(4):

(n.) End; conclusion; object.

(5):

(n.) A mark or ridge left on a casting at the junction of the parts of a mold.

(6):

(n.) The thin sheet of metal squeezed out between the collars of the rolls in the process of rolling.

(7):

(n.) A feather; a spline.

(8):

(n.) A finlike appendage, as to submarine boats.

(9):

(n.) A finlike organ or attachment; a part of an object or product which protrudes like a fin

(10):

(n.) The hand.

(11):

(v. t.) To carve or cut up, as a chub.

(12):

(n.) A fixed stabilizing surface, usually vertical, similar in purpose to a bilge keel on a ship.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fin'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​f/fin.html. 1828.