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Fineness; beauty.

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  1. n. Fineness; beauty.
  2. n. Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels.
  3. n. A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
  4. n. elaborate or showy attire and accessories
  5. 1. Fineness; beauty. [Obs.] Don't choose your place of study by the finery of the prospects. I. Watts. 2. Ornament; decoration; especially, excecially decoration; showy clothes; jewels. Her mistress' cast-off finery. F. W. Robertson. 3. Etym: [Cf. Refinery.] (Iron Works) A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast iron into wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
  6. A charcoal hearth or furnace for the conversion of cast ironinto wrought iron, or into iron suitable for puddling.
  7. n:100 n. elaborate or showy attire and accessories