Finely vs Finery - What's the difference?
finely | finery |
In a manner to produce a fine result; as to grind finely means to grid to a fine powder.
Very well, in a great way
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(obsolete) Fineness; beauty.
Ornament; decoration; especially, excessive decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
(ironworking) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
* 1957 , H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , p. 160:
As an adverb finely
is in a manner to produce a fine result; as to grind finely means to grid to a fine powder.As a noun finery is
(obsolete) fineness; beauty.finely
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Adverb
(en adverb)Anagrams
*finery
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Noun
- In front of the finery hearth in which the sow is melted down again, the finer is working with a long iron bar called a ringer (from French 'ringard') with which he keeps the molten iron in motion by stirring, an essential stage in the process of refining.