[f. FIN sb. + -ED2.] Having a fin or fins (see senses of FIN sb.). Also in parasynthetic derivatives, as prickly-, red-finned.
1340–70. Alex. & Dind., 298. Of þe finnede fihcs · our fode to lacche.
1611. Cotgr., Perche de mer, a wholesome, rough-find … rocke-fish.
1707. Mortimer, Husb., 61. In Kent they … plough up the Turf with a broad finned Plough.
1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist. (1776), VI. 303. The fish that have bony prickly fins, are called Prickly Finned Fish.
1785. Grose, Dict. Vulgar Tongue, s.v. Fin, A one finned fellow, a man who has lost an arm.
1864. Boutell, Heraldry Hist. & Pop., xxi. § 11. (ed. 3), 369. Az., three dolphins naiant, in pale, arg., finned and ducally crowned, or, between two pairs of lucies in saltire.
1868. Morris, Earthly Par., I. 313.
| Dismounting there, and seeing so far a-down | |
| The red-finned fishes o’er the gravel play, | |
| It seemed that moment worth his royal crown | |
| To hide there from the burning of the day. |
