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▪ I. finishing, vbl. n.|ˈfɪnɪʃɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. finish. Also with off.
a1535Fisher Prayer E iij/1 The Smyth..vseth the hammer..towardes the finishyng of his worke. 1614T. Jackson Comm. Apostles Creede II. 216 The accomplishment or finishing of his glory. 1672C. Manners in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 24, I haesten on Mr. Cooper all I can to the finishing of my Lady Exesters picture. 1757Foote Author i. Wks. 1799 I. 135 A sketch can never convey him. His peculiarities require infinite labour and high finishing. 1886Athenæum 18 Dec. 832/1 The cuts are..as good as photography, delicate finishing, and choice modern cutting can make them. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 167/2 Cleaning-up, the operation of preparing the finished surface of joinery work. Also called finishing-off. 1942W. S. Churchill Secret Session Speeches 23 Apr. (1946) 74 The defeat of Hitler left the finishing-off of Japan merely a matter of time and trouble.
2. concr. That which completes or gives a finished appearance to any kind of work. In Building and Carpentry, decoration, ornamental work. In Bookbinding, the lettering and ornamental work on the covers.
1663Gerbier Counsel 15 If the Builder..will have the Building to have no other finishing. 1712Addison Spect. No. 285 ⁋3 Give the last Finishing to every Circumstance in so long a Work. 1766Entick London IV. 287 The wainscot and finishing very neat. 1785J. Phillips Treat. Inland Navig. 25 To have a lawn terminated by water..is a finishing, of all others the most desirable. c1850Rudim. Navig. (Weale) 118 Finishings, the carved ornaments of the quarter⁓galleries. 1884H. P. Spofford in Harper's Mag. Jan. 181/1 The house is..of a pale cream-color, with white finishings.
3. attrib. and Comb., as finishing governess, finishing machine, finishing master, finishing mortar, finishing wood. Also finishing-card (see quot.); finishing cloth, calico prepared for ‘finishing’; so finishing goods, finishing linens; finishing-coat, in Building, the last coating of plaster; finishing-hammer, the last hammer used by the gold-beater; finishing-post, the post or place which marks the finishing point of a race; finishing-press (Bookbinding), a small press used in the process of ‘finishing’; finishing-rolls, a second set of rolls in a rolling-mill; finishing-school, a school where a pupil's (usually young lady's) education is ‘finished’.
1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 848/2 *Finishing-card, a machine in which the process of carding is repeated.
1892Daily News 19 Mar. 5/5 Printers' and *finishing cloths slow.
1892Ibid. 6 Aug. 6/4 Printing and *finishing goods slow.
1862Times 2 Jan., A *finishing daily governess wishes to devote three or four hours every afternoon to the instruction of pupils.
1892Daily News 5 Mar. 2/7 Cross Channel demand for..*finishing linens.
1869Ibid. 10 Dec., Double⁓blast thrashing and *finishing machines.
1799H. More Fem. Educ. (ed. 4) I. 79 All..have the honour to co⁓operate with a *finishing master.
1662Gerbier Princ. 19 Bricks to be daubed over with *finishing Morter. 1703Moxon Mech. Exerc. 250 The finishing Morter to represent Stone, should be made of the strongest Lime.
1895Daily Tel. 26 Sept. 3 The referee was sent on ahead to the Bricklayers' Arms, the *finishing-post. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Jan. 83/3 Unable to make out exactly where the finishing-posts are.
1881Raymond Mining Gloss., *Finishing-rolls.
1836–7Dickens Sk. Boz (1850) 204/2 I'll bring in a bill for the abolition of *finishing-schools. 1863M. E. Braddon Eleanor's Vict. iii, He sent his daughters to the most expensive finishing-school in Paris.
1887West Shore 427 The white..cedar, a splendid *finishing wood.
▪ II. finishing, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That finishes; esp. in (to put, give, receive) the finishing († hand,) stroke or touch.
1705Stanhope Paraphr. II. 296 The finishing, or the First, act of Repentance. 1707Reflex. upon Ridicule 330 A Mind well turn'd, receives the finishing stroke and polishing from Science. 1754A. Murphy Gray's-Inn Jrnl. No. 71 ⁋4 In each Species of Writing I have given the finishing Hand to some Pieces. 1771Walpole Anecd. Painting IV. 145 (On Gardening), We tire of all the painter's art when it wants these finishing touches. 1831Keble Serm. v. (1848) 106 With the finishing touch..he completes his picture of that intense depravity. 1858R. S. Surtees Ask Mamma lxxxi. 354 To enable them to put the finishing stroke to their respective arrangements. |