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Fixed; solidified. |
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To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently;
to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make
definite. |
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To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the
eye on an object, the attention on a speaker. |
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To transfix; to pierce. |
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To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such
applications as will make it insensible to the action of light. |
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To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to
set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable;
hence, to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a
room. |
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To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling. |
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To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease
from wandering; to rest. |
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To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to
flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a
metallic substance. |
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A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament;
dilemma. |
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fettling. |