fetching : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: fetching	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fetching adj very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his manner"; "a winning personality" Synonym(s): fetching, taking, winning
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Fetch \Fetch\ (?; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Fetched} 2; p. pr. & vb. n.. {Fetching}.] [OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh. the same word as fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get, OFries. faka to prepare. [root] 77. Cf. {Fet}, v. t.] 1. To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go and bring; to get. Time will run back and fetch the age of gold. --Milton. He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as she was going to fetch it he called to her, and said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bred in thine hand. --1 Kings xvii. 11, 12. 2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for. Our native horses were held in small esteem, and fetched low prices. --Macaulay. 3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to; as, to fetch a man to. Fetching men again when they swoon. --Bacon. 4. To reduce; to throw. The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to the ground. --South. 5. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh. I'll fetch a turn about the garden. --Shak. He fetches his blow quick and sure. --South. 6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive at; to attain; to reach by sailing. Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched The siren's isle. --Chapman. 7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state. They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. --W. Barnes. {To fetch a compass} (Naut.), to make a sircuit; to take a circuitious route going to a place. {To fetch a pump}, to make it draw water by pouring water into the top and working the handle. {To fetch} {headway [or] sternway} (Naut.), to move ahead or astern. {To fetch out}, to develop. [bd]The skill of the polisher fetches out the colors [of marble][b8] --Addison. {To fetch up}. (a) To overtake. [Obs.] [bd]Says [the hare], I can fetch up the tortoise when I please.[b8] --L'Estrange. (b) To stop suddenly.