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Fix
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. i.) 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.
(2):
(v. i.) To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
(3):
(v. t.) To transfix; to pierce.
(4):
(a.) Fixed; solidified.
(5):
(v. t.) To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
(6):
(v. t.) To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
(7):
(v. t.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
(8):
(n.) A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
(9):
(v. t.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.
(10):
(n.) fettling.
(11):
(v. t.) 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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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Fix'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/fix.html. 1828.
