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   fashion business
         n 1: makers and sellers of fashionable clothing [syn: {apparel
               industry}, {garment industry}, {fashion industry}, {fashion
               business}, {rag trade}]

English Dictionary: fusion bomb by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fashion plate
n
  1. a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance
    Synonym(s): dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, beau, swell, fashion plate, clotheshorse
  2. a plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fashionable
adj
  1. being or in accordance with current social fashions; "fashionable clothing"; "the fashionable side of town"; "a fashionable cafe"
    Synonym(s): fashionable, stylish
    Antonym(s): unfashionable, unstylish
  2. having elegance or taste or refinement in manners or dress; "a little less posh but every bit as stylish as Lord Peter Wimsey"; "the stylish resort of Gstadd"
    Synonym(s): stylish, fashionable
    Antonym(s): styleless, unstylish
  3. patronized by
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fashionably
adv
  1. in a fashionable manner; "his voice had no trace of the drawl that you would expect to find in a fashionably dressed young man"
    Antonym(s): unfashionably
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fee simple
n
  1. a fee without limitation to any class of heirs; they can sell it or give it away
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fission bomb
n
  1. a nuclear weapon in which enormous energy is released by nuclear fission (splitting the nuclei of a heavy element like uranium 235 or plutonium 239)
    Synonym(s): atom bomb, atomic bomb, A-bomb, fission bomb, plutonium bomb
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fissionable
adj
  1. capable of undergoing nuclear fission; "a fissionable nucleous"; "fissionable material"
    Synonym(s): fissionable, fissile
    Antonym(s): nonfissionable
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
fusion bomb
n
  1. a nuclear weapon that releases atomic energy by union of light (hydrogen) nuclei at high temperatures to form helium
    Synonym(s): hydrogen bomb, H-bomb, fusion bomb, thermonuclear bomb
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Fraxinus \[d8]Frax"i*nus\, n. [L., the ash tree.] (Bot.)
      A genus of deciduous forest trees, found in the north
      temperate zone, and including the true ash trees.
  
      Note: {Fraxinus excelsior} is the European ash; {F.
               Americana}, the white ash; {F. sambucifolia}, the black
               ash or water ash.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashion \Fash"ion\, n. [OE. fasoun, facioun, shape, manner, F.
      facon, orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to
      make. See {Fact}, {Feat}, and cf. {Faction}.]
      1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape,
            appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the
            fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar,
            etc.; workmanship; execution.
  
                     The fashion of his countenance was altered. --Luke
                                                                              ix. 29.
  
                     I do not like the fashion of your garments. --Shak.
  
      2. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom
            or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior,
            etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual
            among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing,
            ride, etc., in the fashion.
  
                     The innocent diversions in fashion.   --Locke.
  
                     As now existing, fashion is a form of social
                     regulation analogous to constitutional government as
                     a form of political regulation.         --H. Spencer.
  
      3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position;
            good breeding; as, men of fashion.
  
      4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort;
            way. [bd]After his sour fashion.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {After a fashion}, to a certain extent; in a sort.
  
      {Fashion piece} (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate
            the transom, and define the shape of the stern.
  
      {Fashion plate}, a pictorial design showing the prevailing
            style or a new style of dress.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashion \Fash"ion\, n. [OE. fasoun, facioun, shape, manner, F.
      facon, orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to
      make. See {Fact}, {Feat}, and cf. {Faction}.]
      1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape,
            appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the
            fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar,
            etc.; workmanship; execution.
  
                     The fashion of his countenance was altered. --Luke
                                                                              ix. 29.
  
                     I do not like the fashion of your garments. --Shak.
  
      2. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom
            or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior,
            etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual
            among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing,
            ride, etc., in the fashion.
  
                     The innocent diversions in fashion.   --Locke.
  
                     As now existing, fashion is a form of social
                     regulation analogous to constitutional government as
                     a form of political regulation.         --H. Spencer.
  
      3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position;
            good breeding; as, men of fashion.
  
      4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort;
            way. [bd]After his sour fashion.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {After a fashion}, to a certain extent; in a sort.
  
      {Fashion piece} (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate
            the transom, and define the shape of the stern.
  
      {Fashion plate}, a pictorial design showing the prevailing
            style or a new style of dress.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashionable \Fash"ion*a*ble\, a.
      1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according
            with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable
            dress.
  
      2. Established or favored by custom or use; current;
            prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable
            philosophy; fashionable opinions.
  
      3. Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or
            behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a
            fashionable man.
  
      4. Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society.
  
                     Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes
                     his parting guest by the hand.            --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashionable \Fash"ion*a*ble\, n.
      A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the
      plural.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashionableness \Fash"ion*a*ble*ness\, n.
      State of being fashionable.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fashionably \Fash"ion*a*bly\, adv.
      In a fashionable manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fee \Fee\ (f[emac]), n. [OE. fe, feh, feoh, cattle, property,
      money, fief, AS. feoh cattle, property, money; the senses of
      [bd]property, money,[b8] arising from cattle being used in
      early times as a medium of exchange or payment, property
      chiefly consisting of cattle; akin to OS. fehu cattle,
      property, D. vee cattle, OHG. fihu, fehu, G. vieh, Icel.
      f[emac] cattle, property, money, Goth. fa[a1]hu, L. pecus
      cattle, pecunia property, money, Skr. pa[cced]u cattle, perh.
      orig., [bd]a fastened or tethered animal,[b8] from a root
      signifying to bind, and perh. akin to E. fang, fair, a.; cf.
      OF. fie, flu, feu, fleu, fief, F. fief, from German, of the
      same origin. the sense fief is due to the French. [root]249.
      Cf. {Feud}, {Fief}, {Fellow}, {Pecuniary}.]
      1. property; possession; tenure. [bd]Laden with rich fee.[b8]
            --Spenser.
  
                     Once did she hold the gorgeous East in fee.
                                                                              --Wordsworth.
  
      2. Reward or compensation for services rendered or to be
            rendered; especially, payment for professional services,
            of optional amount, or fixed by custom or laws; charge;
            pay; perquisite; as, the fees of lawyers and physicians;
            the fees of office; clerk's fees; sheriff's fees; marriage
            fees, etc.
  
                     To plead for love deserves more fee than hate.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
      3. (Feud. Law) A right to the use of a superior's land, as a
            stipend for services to be performed; also, the land so
            held; a fief.
  
      4. (Eng. Law) An estate of inheritance supposed to be held
            either mediately or immediately from the sovereign, and
            absolutely vested in the owner.
  
      Note: All the land in England, except the crown land, is of
               this kind. An absolute fee, or fee simple, is land
               which a man holds to himself and his heirs forever, who
               are called tenants in fee simple. In modern writers, by
               fee is usually meant fee simple. A limited fee may be a
               qualified or base fee, which ceases with the existence
               of certain conditions; or a conditional fee, or fee
               tail, which is limited to particular heirs.
               --Blackstone.
  
      5. (Amer. Law) An estate of inheritance belonging to the
            owner, and transmissible to his heirs, absolutely and
            simply, without condition attached to the tenure.
  
      {Fee estate} (Eng. Law), land or tenements held in fee in
            consideration or some acknowledgment or service rendered
            to the lord.
  
      {Fee farm} (Law), land held of another in fee, in
            consideration of an annual rent, without homage, fealty,
            or any other service than that mentioned in the feoffment;
            an estate in fee simple, subject to a perpetual rent.
            --Blackstone.
  
      {Fee farm rent} (Eng. Law), a perpetual rent reserved upon a
            conveyance in fee simple.
  
      {Fee fund} (Scot. Law), certain court dues out of which the
            clerks and other court officers are paid.
  
      {Fee simple} (Law), an absolute fee; a fee without conditions
            or limits.
  
                     Buy the fee simple of my life for an hour and a
                     quarter.                                             --Shak.
  
      {Fee tail} (Law), an estate of inheritance, limited and
            restrained to some particular heirs. --Burill.
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