FINE-DRAWING, or Rentering, a dexterous sewing-up or rejoining the parts of any cloth, stuff, or the like, torn or rent in the dressing, wearing, &c.
It is prohibited to fine-draw pieces of foreign manufacture upon these of our own, as has formerly been practised. See RENTERING.
Fine-Stiller, in the distillery. That branch of the art which is employed on the distilling the spirit from treacle or other preparations or recements of sugar, is called fine-stilling, by way of distinction from malt-stilling; and the person who exercises this part of the trade is called a fine-stiller.
The operation in procuring the spirit from sugar is the same with that used in making the malt spirit; a wash of the saccharine matter being made with water from treacle, &c. and fermented with yeast. It is usual to add in this case, however, a considerable portion of malt, and sometimes powdered jalap, to the fermenting backs. The malt accelerates the fermentation, and makes the spirit come out the cheaper, and the jalap prevents the rise of any musty head on the surface of the fermenting liquor, so as to leave a greater opportunity for the free access of the air, and thus to shorten the work, by turning the foamy into a hissing fermentation.
FINERS of GOLD and SILVER, are those who purify and part those metals from other coarser ones by fire and acids. They are also called parters in our old law books, and sometimes departers.