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  • English Word Fitting Definition Anything used in fitting up
  • English Word Fitting Definition necessary fixtures or apparatus; as, the fittings of a church or study; gas fittings.
  • English Word Fitting Definition Fit; appropriate; suitable; proper.
  • English Word Fitweed Definition A plant (Eryngium foetidum) supposed to be a remedy for fits.
  • English Word Fitz Definition A son; -- used in compound names, to indicate paternity, esp. of the illegitimate sons of kings and princes of the blood; as, Fitzroy, the son of the king; Fitzclarence, the son of the duke of Clarence.
  • English Word Five Definition Four and one added; one more than four.
  • English Word Five Definition The number next greater than four, and less than six; five units or objects.
  • English Word Five Definition A symbol representing this number, as 5, or V.
  • English Word Five-finger Definition See Cinquefoil.
  • English Word Five-finger Definition A starfish with five rays, esp. Asterias rubens.
  • English Word Five-leaf Definition Cinquefoil; five-finger.
  • English Word Five-leafed Definition Alt. of Five-leaved
  • English Word Five-leaved Definition Having five leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
  • English Word Five-twenties Definition Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.
  • English Word Fivefold Definition In fives; consisting of five in one; five repeated; quintuple.
  • English Word Fiveling Definition A compound or twin crystal consisting of five individuals.
  • English Word Fives Definition A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are counted to the game.
  • English Word Fives Definition A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.
  • English Word Fix Definition Fixed; solidified.
  • English Word Fix Definition To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
  • English Word Fix Definition To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
  • English Word Fix Definition To transfix; to pierce.
  • English Word Fix Definition To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.
  • English Word Fix Definition 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.
  • English Word Fix Definition To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.
  • English Word Fix Definition To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.
  • English Word Fix Definition 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.
  • English Word Fix Definition A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.
  • English Word Fix Definition fettling.
  • English Word Fixable Definition Capable of being fixed.