fineness

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Fineness of mouth, means a mouth that is perfectly trained, and responds to the determined action of a sensitive hand.

From The Lady and Her Horse Being Hints Selected from Various Sources and Compiled into a System of Equitation by Jenkins, T. A.

Fineness is not in vogue, any more than love is.

From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Wray, Fitzwater

As to Fineness, it matters not, if but one in five be employed in it to an exquisite degree; for there is enough occasion for courser, for Sacking, Sails, Ticking, Common Table-Linnen, Sheets, &c.

From Proposals for Building, In Every County, A Working-Alms-House or Hospital as the Best Expedient to Perfect the Trade and Manufactory of Linnen Cloth by Haines, Richard

The Government of the World is a great thing; but it is a very coarse one too, compared with the Fineness of Speculative Knowledge.

From A Character of King Charles the Second by Halifax, George Savile, Marquis of

Grades of Coarseness or Fineness of Emery Wheels.—Emery is found in the form of rock, and is crushed into the various grades of fineness.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua