The property of having elegance, grace, refinement, or skill.
An adroit manoeuvre.
In bridge, whist, etc.: a technique which allows one to win a trick, usually by playing a card when it is thought that a card that can beat it is held by another player whose turn is over.
Skill in the handling or manipulation of a situation.
To play (a card) as a finesse.
To obtain something from someone through trickery or manipulation.
To evade (a problem, situation, etc.) by using some clever argument or stratagem.
To attempt to win a trick by finessing.
To handle or manage carefully or skilfully; to manipulate in a crafty way.
Sensitive mental touch; special skill or faculty; keen perception or discernment; ready power of appreciating and doing what is required by circumstances; the ability to say the right thing.
The stroke in beating time.
A verbal operant which is controlled by a nonverbal stimulus (such as an object, event, or property of an object) and is maintained by nonspecific social reinforcement (praise).
The sense of touch; feeling.
To use a tact (a kind of verbal operant; see noun sense).