His first _wife_ was Roscrana, mother of Ossian. His second was Clatho, mother of Fillan, etc. (Roscrana was the daughter of Cormac I. third king of Ireland). His _daughter_ was Bosmi´na, and his _sons_ Ossian, Fillan, Ryno, and Fergus. (The son of Ossian was Oscar.) (Fillan was younger than his nephew Oscar, and both, together with Ryno, were slain in battle before Fingal died.) His _bard_ and _herald_ was Ullin. His _sword_ Luno, so called from its maker, Luno of Locklin (_Denmark_). His _kingdom_ was Morven (_The northwest coast of Scotland_); his _capital_ Semo; his _subjects_ were Caledonians or Gaels. After the restoration of Ferad-Artho to the throne of Ireland, Fingal “resigned his spear to Ossian,” and died A.D. 283. _Fingal_, an epic in six books, by Ossian. The subject is the invasion of Ireland by Swaran, king of Lochlin (_Denmark_) during the reign of Cormac II. (a minor), and its deliverance by the aid of Fingal, king of Morven (_northwest coast of Scotland_). The poem opens with the overthrow of Cuthullin, general of the Irish forces, and concludes with the return of Swaran to his own land. =Finger.= “Little finger tell me true.” When M. Argan wishes to pump his little daughter Louison, respecting a young gentleman who pays attentions to her elder sister, he says to the child, “Prenez-y bien garde au moins; car voilà un petit doigt, qui sait tout, qui me dira si vous mentez.” When the child has told him all she knows, he puts his little finger to his ear and says, “Voilà mon petit doigt pourtant qui gronde quelque chose. Attendez! Hé! Ah, ah! Oui? Oh, oh! voila mon petit doigt, qui me dit quelque chose que vous avez vu et que vous ne m’avez pas dit.” To which the child replies, “Ah! mon papa, votre petit doigt est un menteur.”—Molière, _Le Malade Imaginaire_, ii. 11 (1673). =Finis Poloniæ.= These words are attributed (but without sufficient authority) to Koscziusko the Pole, when he lay wounded by the balls of Suwaroff’s troops on the field of Maciejowieze (October 10, 1794). Percé de coups, Koscziusko s’écria en tombant “Finis Poloniæ.”—Michaud, _Biographie Universelle_. =Finlayson= (_Luckie_), landlady of the lodgings in the Canongate of Edinburgh.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Fin´niston= (_Duncan_), a tenant of the laird of Gudgeonford. _Luckie Finniston_, wife of Duncan.—Sir W. Scott, _Guy Mannering_ (time, George II.). =Fion= (son of Comnal), an enormous giant, who could place one foot on Mount Cromleach, in Ulster, and the other on Mount Crommal, close by, and then dip his hand in the river Lubar, which ran between. With one foot on the Crommal set and one on Mount Cromleach, The waters of the Lubar stream his giant hand could reach. _Translation of the Gaelic._ =Fiona,= a series of traditionary old Irish poems on the subject of Fion M’Comnal and the heroes connected with him.