to fine

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to fine - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Fine \Fine\ (f[imac]n), v. i.
     To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale
     will fine; the weather fined.
  
     To fine away, down, off, gradually to become fine; to
        diminish; to dwindle.
  
              I watched her [the ship] . . . gradually fining down
              in the westward until I lost of her hull. --W. C.
                                                    Russel.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]