Irish Hist. [Irish.] An Old Irish family or sept.
1873. W. K. Sullivan, Introd. O’Curry’s Anc. Irish, I. 79. The clan, which comprised several Fines.
1875. Maine, Hist. Inst., iv. 105. My own strong opinion is that the ‘Fine,’ whose rights and powers are the principal theme of the Corus Bescna, and whose name the translators render ‘Tribe,’ is neither the Tribe in its largest extension, nor, on the other hand, the modern Family or group of descendants from a living ancestor, but the Sept.
