Meaning

• Fine champagne; French brandy.

• (usually in the plural) Something that is fine; fine particles.

  "They filtered silt and fines out of the soil."

Meaning

• To make finer, purer, or cleaner; to purify or clarify.

  "to fine gold"

• To become finer, purer, or cleaner.

• To make finer, or less coarse, as in bulk, texture, etc.

  "to fine the soil"

• To change by fine gradations.

  "to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually"

• To clarify (wine and beer) by filtration.

• To become gradually fine; to diminish; to dwindle (with away, down, or off).

Meaning

• Senses referring to subjective quality.

• Senses referring to objective quality.

• Behind the batsman and at a small angle to the line between the wickets.

  "[...] to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four [...]"

• Subtle; thin; tenuous.

Meaning

• Expression of (typically) reluctant agreement.

• Well, nicely, in a positive way.

  "Everything worked out fine."

• Finely; elegantly; delicately.

• In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.