The Collaborative International Dictionary
away down off
Fine \Fine\ (f[imac]n), v. i. To become fine (in any one of various senses); as, the ale will fine; the weather fined.
To fine away, down, off, gradually to become fine; to diminish; to dwindle.
I watched her [the ship] . . . gradually fining down
in the westward until I lost of her hull.
--W. C.
Russel.