Dictionary entry

Fine (8)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Fine (fīn), v. i. To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale will fine; the weather fined.

To fineaway, down, off, gradually to become fine; to diminish; to dwindle.

I watched her... gradually fining down in the westward until I lost of her hull. W. C. Russel.