1539 Forest Proc. in E. Straker Wealden Iron (1931) 249 To melt the Sowes in ij forges or ffynories ther must be iiij persones.

1613 J. Rovenzon Treat. Metallica sig. C4 The furnaces may be made with conuenient places therein for the Finery and Chaffery.

1673 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words 129 One man and a boy at the Finery should make 2 tuns of Iron in a week.

1716 Philos. Trans. Abridg'd (Royal Soc.) 2 559 Into their Finery, they first put their Pigs of Iron, placing 3 or 4 of them together behind the Fire.

1789 S. Shaw Tour West of Eng. 207 From this forge, which is called the finery, it [sc. pig iron] is taken to another called the chafrey, where it is also heated and hammered.

1809 Tradesman 1 Nov. 389 By an operation in the finery or forge, iron is changed from its fusible and rigid state, into tough and malleable iron.

1864 J. Percy Metall.: Iron & Steel 579 The conversion was always effected in a finery or hearth.

1908 B. Stoughton Metall. Iron & Steel iii. 69 The melted metal..is run directly into two charcoal fineries.

1958 New Scientist 23 Jan. 31/2 Cast iron was produced in a blast furnace and then decarburised in a finery to the required degree of purity.

2001 R. B. Gordon Amer. Iron vii. 173 Although Americans experimented with steelmaking in bloomeries (as well as in fineries to make ‘German steel’), they had little success in making a useful product.

1771 J. Keir in tr. P. J. Macquer Dict. Chem. II. 717/2 In one bar frequently two or more different kinds of iron may be observed... This difference probably proceeds..from that practice of mixing two or more pigs of cast iron of different qualities in the finery of these.

1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 699 The finery..is executed in peculiar furnaces called running-out fires.

1856 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 21 Nov. 11/2 In the old method the smelting, puddling, and finery operations are all performed at one and the same time.

1908 J. H. Stansbie Iron & Steel vii. 156 In puddling and finery processes the removal of the non-metals is largely effected by the oxygen in basic iron cinders.

1965 Archaeologia Polona 8 90 The above mentioned limestone addition made it possible to reduce the phosphorus content during the finery process.

1552 in C. L. Kingsford Rep. MSS Ld. de l'Isle & Dudley (1925) I. 314 Dressing the chafery and fynery bellows—15s. 2d.

1653 in J. E. McWilliams From Ground Up (Ph.D. diss., Johns Hopkins Univ.) (2001) iv. 246 Dressing the finery bellows.

1707 in M. Wanklyn Inventories Worcs. Landed Gentry, 1537–1786 (1998) 315 One pair of chafery bellowes, two pair of finery bellowes, all now in use and almost worne out.

1982 B. S. Trinder Making of Industr. Landscape ii. 22 The finery bellows and the forge hammers were normally worked by waterwheels.

1786 J. Priestley Exper. & Obs. Nat. Philos. III. 171 I examined inflammable air that had been got from a mixture of finery cinder and charcoal.

1872 Amer. Chemist Sept. 89/1 The finery cinder produced differs very much in appearance; it contains 5 or 6 per cent. more silica than ordinary finery cinder from pig with a moderate amount of silicium in it.

1976 A. Musgrave in C. Howson Method & Appraisal in Physical Sci. 199 Priestley also claimed to have extracted ‘inflammable air’ by calcinating iron filings, and by heating ‘finery cinder’ (Fe₃O₄) with charcoal.

2004 F. Hamer & J. Hamer Potter's Dict. Materials & Techniques 28/2 Finery cinder. Fe₃O₄. The lustrous blue flakes produced when hot iron is hammered.

1786 J. Priestley Exper. & Obs. Nat. Philos. III. 356 In the finery furnace..the cast iron is exposed to a strong blast of air.

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. 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.

1999 CIM Bull. (Canad. Inst. Mining & Metall.) Feb. 69/3 Henry Cort..improved the ‘finery furnace’ by adjusting the amount of air to control the carbon content of the product.

1693 M. Lister in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 866 Bars..taken up out of the Finnery Harth, or second Forage, are much better Iron than those which are made in the Bloomary.

1777 J. Nicolson & R. Burn Hist. Westmorland & Cumberland I. vi. 191 He therein deviseth..a finery hearth and forge at Consey.

1869 T. S. Hunt in Rep. Progress 1866–1869 (Geol. Surv. Canada) (1870) 274 Karsten was of the opinion that in some regions, and with certain ores, the direct process was, perhaps, more advantageous than the use of the blast-furnace combined with the finery-hearth.

1961 Technol. & Culture 2 135 In the finery hearth a piece of cast iron from the blast furnace was melted and then subjected to an oxidizing blast to remove the carbon, silicon, and some other impurities.

2008 Econ. Hist. Rev. 61 93 Unlike the open finery hearth, the Lancashire hearth was a closed chamber with openings for working the iron and conveying a blast of air.

1647 J. Batchiler Χρυσάμμοι 79 Grace..set them off with best advantage, with all their finery and jewels on them.

1662 J. Heath Glories Restitution Charles II 147 The Dust that covered all the finery and sullied the rich Habits that were worn that day.

1662 tr. J. Olivier Disc. Women 171 She came home and disroab'd her self of her gay attire, laid aside her pendants and her other fineries [Fr. richesses].

1680 A. Montague Let. 1 Nov. in E. M. Thompson Corr. Family of Hatton (1878) I. 240 I doe not heare of much finnery, and what I shall have will not deserve that name.

1721 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius 8 Jan. Sciences and Arts have declin'd in Oxford, in Proportion as their Fineries have increased.

1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 170. ⁋4 My sisters envied my new finery.

a1809 N. Nicholls in T. Gray & N. Nicholls Corr. (1843) 53 When Mr. Walpole added the gallery, with its gilding and glass, he said, ‘he had degenerated into finery’.

1858 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 30 Apr. in French & Ital. Notebks. (1980) iv. 193 Children are..rendered stiff..by the finery which they wear.

1936 Amer. Home Feb. 66/4 We find milady, decked in all her godey book finery, tripping to the apothecary and demanding a strong oil of fennel with which to perfume her dainty person.

1953 R. P. Randall M. Lincoln ii. 12 The glowing girl whose neat little figure dressed in the latest feminine finery was followed by the eyes of the tall young lawyer.

2010 Church Times 23 July 18/2 The Grand Inquisitor..is a gaunt figure, dressed not in cardinatial finery, but in the austere habit of his monastic order.

1656 R. Drake Bar against Free Admission to Lords Supper Fixed i. x. 195 He findes fault I am too fine, yet suspects I am not in good earnest. Truely Sir, I hope I affect not finery but seriousnesse.

1665 W. Kemp Brief Treat. Pestilence 37 They would thankfully adore Gods bounty in providing for them places of refuge, and part with some of their Finery, Pride, Excesse, Prodigality, Superstuity, and Luxury.

1687 S. Lee Χαρα της Πιστεως viii. 197 The seriousness of your spirits be hurt by minding vanities and the rattles of pride and finery.

1729 W. Law Serious Call 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.

1741 C. Middleton tr. Paulinus in Let. from Rome (ed. 4) Postscr. 244 To gaze at the finery of these paintings.

?c1795 Strange & Wonderful Predict. C. Love (new ed.) 42 They will be outcasts in Hell, and all their finery and frippery here, will be their open and everlasting shame there.

1847 G. P. R. James Convict iii. 8/1 There was a looking for comfort rather than finery.

1865 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire (new ed.) VIII. lxvi. 250 They represent..a certain fantastic finery of manners.

1932 R. R. Marrett Faith, Hope & Charity in Primitive Relig. x. 176 Jimmy Button tore all his European clothes to rags in order that his friends might participate in his finery.

1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. viii. iv. 407 The minute Curiosities and inimitable Fineries, observable in those lesser Animals.

1735 B. Martin Philos. Gram. v. v. 311 How curiously are those outward Teguments, or hard Cases of Insects Bodies..adorned with neat Imbrications, and many other Beauties, and Fineries.

1828 W. Dyott Diary Apr. (1907) II. 22 Dick and I..became lookers-on at the assembled crowds and the finery folks going to S^t James's.

1860 Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper 25 Mar. 10/4 A Strong Active Man Wanted, who has been accustomed to work in a Laundry... Also a few Women as Best Shirt and Finery Ironers.]

1884 Freeman's Jrnl. 25 Sept. 1/9 Laundry; a first-class Finery Ironer wanted, a first class Collar Ironer; also an experienced starcher; none but those having long experience need apply.

1895 Westm. Gaz. 16 Apr. 3/2 Of the ironers: four made incomplete weeks; one worked 72,..and one (the finery ironer) 75¾.

1986 P. E. Malcolmson Eng. Laundresses iv. 107 Large hand laundries..were highly dependent on the talents of the experienced finery ironer.

1915 Census Eng. & Wales 1911 X. 38/1 in Parl. Papers 1914–16 (Cd. 7660) LXXXI. 1 Laundry Worker... Examiner. Feeder. Finery Machinist. Folder. Forewoman. Glosser.

1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) §918 Finery machinist, general term for any person ironing delicate articles by machine in a laundry.