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▪ I. finery1|ˈfaɪnərɪ|
[f. fine a. + -ery; perh. on the analogy of bravery.]
1.
†a. ‘Fine’ appearance; beauty or elegance viewed disparagingly (obs.).
b. Smartness, stylishness, affected or ostentatious elegance or splendour (now rare).
1729Law Serious C. iv. 57 They want..to maintain their families in some such figure and degree of finery as a reasonable Christian life has no occasion for. 1741Watts Improv. Mind i. xv. §4. 214 Don't chuse your constant Place of Study by the Finery of the Prospects. 1741Middleton Let. fr. Rome Postscr. 244 To gaze at the finery of these paintings. 1792Wolcott (P. Pindar) More Money Wks. 1812 II. 496 Never wish to keep a thing for finery. 1847James Convict iii, There was a looking for comfort rather than finery. 1865Merivale Rom. Emp. VIII. lxvi. 250 They represent..a certain fantastic finery of manners.
2. concr. Gaudy or showy decoration; showy dress. Also in pl.
1680Miss A. Montague in Hatton Corr. (1878) 240, I doe not heare of much finnery, and what I shall have will not deserve that name. 1726Amherst Terræ Fil. v. 25 Sciences and arts have declin'd in Oxford, in proportion as their fineries have increased. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 170 ⁋4 My sisters envied my new finery. 1805N. Nicholls Let. in Corr. w. Gray (1843) 53 When Mr. Walpole added the gallery, with its gilding and glass, he said, ‘he had degenerated into finery’. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps i §7. 16, I would not have that useless expense in unnoticed fineries or formalities. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. I. 192 Children rendered stiff..by the finery which they wear.
†3. pl. Instances of fine or delicate workmanship.
1713Derham Phys. Theol. viii. iv. 407 The minute Curiosities and inimitable Fineries, observable in those lesser Animals.
4. Comb.: finery folks, people stylishly dressed; finery-ironer, -machinist (see quots.).
1828W. Dyott Jrnl. Apr. (1907) II. 22 Dick and I..became lookers-on at the assembled crowds and the finery folks going to St James's. 1895Westm. Gaz. 16 Apr. 3/2 Of the ironers: four made incomplete weeks; one worked 72,..and one (the finery ironer) 753/4. 1908Daily Chron. 12 June 9/6 Laundry.—Wanted finery ironers. 1921Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §918 Finery machinist, general term for any person ironing delicate articles by machine in a laundry.
▪ II. finery2|ˈfaɪnərɪ|
Also 7–8 finary.
[a. Fr. finerie, f. finer to refine, fine v.2; see -ery.]
1. A hearth where cast iron is made malleable, or in which steel is made from pig-iron.
1607Cowell Interpr. s.v. Blomary, One of the forges belonging to an iron mill..called a Finary. 1613J. Rovenzon Treatise of Metallica C 4 The furnaces may be made with conuenient places therein for the Finery and Chaffery. 1697View Penal Laws 255 Any Iron-Mill Furnace, Finary or Blomary for the making of iron or metal. 1831J. Holland Manuf. Metal I. 80 One man and a boy at the finery should make two tons of iron in a week. 1864Percy Iron & Steel 579 Before the introduction of [puddling] the conversion was always effected in a finery.
2. The action of refining iron. rare.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 699 The finery..is executed in peculiar furnaces called running-out fires.
3. Comb., as finery-cinder (see quot. 1826); finery-furnace (see quot. 1874); finery-hearth = finery furnace.
1788Priestley in Phil. Trans. LXXVIII. 154 Also when the scale of iron, or *finery cinder, is heated. 1810Henry Elem. Chem. (1840) II. 21 Iron thus treated [with water when red-hot]..may be crumbled down into a black powder, to which the name of finery cinder was given by Dr. Priestley.
1791Beddoes in Phil. Trans. LXXXI. 173 The reverberatory has been substituted in the place of the *finery furnace. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 847/2 Finery-furnace, a species of forge-hearth in which gray cast-iron is smelted by fuel and blast, and from which it is run into iron troughs for sudden congelation.
1693Lister in Phil. Trans. XVII. 866 Bars..taken up out of the *Finnery Harth, or second Forage, are much better Iron than those which are made in the Bloomary. |