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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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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. | |
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Fashionable \Fash"ion*a*ble\, n. A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural. | |
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Fashionableness \Fash"ion*a*ble*ness\, n. State of being fashionable. | |
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Fashionably \Fash"ion*a*bly\, adv. In a fashionable manner. | |
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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. |