Part 4187

<h1>Fashionableness</h1> <Xpage=544>

<hw>Fash"ion*a*ble*ness</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>State of being fashionable.</def>

<h1>Fashionably</h1> <Xpage=544>

<hw>Fash"ion*a*bly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a fashionable manner.</def>

<h1>Fashioned</h1> <Xpage=544>

<hw>Fash"ioned</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt><def>Having a certain style or fashion; as old-<i>fashioned</i>; new-<i>fashioned</i>.</def>

<h1>Fashioner</h1> <Xpage=544>

<hw>Fash"ion*er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>The <b>fashioner</b> had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Fashionist</h1> <Xpage=544>

<hw>Fash"ion*ist</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Fuller.</i>

<h1>Fashionless</h1> <Xpage=544>

<hw>Fash"ion*less</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having no fashion.</def>

<h1>Fashion-monger</h1> <Xpage=544>

<hw>Fash"ion-mon`ger</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy.</def>

<i>Marston.</i>

<h1>Fashion-mongering</h1> <Xpage=544>

<hw>Fash"ion-mon`ger*ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Behaving like a fashion-monger.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Fassaite</h1> <Xpage=544>

<hw>Fas"sa*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of <i>Fassa</i>, in the Tyrol.</def>

<h1>Fast</h1> <Xpage=544>

<hw>Fast</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fasted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fasting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>f&ae;stan</ets>; <ets>akin to D</ets>. <ets>vasten</ets>, OHG. <ets>fast&emac;n</ets>, G. <ets>fasten</ets>, Icel. & Sw. <ets>fasta</ets>, Dan. <ets>faste</ets>, Goth. <ets>fastan</ets> to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. <ets>fast</ets> firm.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.</def>

<blockquote><b>Fasting</b> he went to sleep, and <b>fasting</b> waked. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.</def>

<blockquote>Thou didst <b>fast</b> and weep for the child. <i>2 Sam. xii. 21.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Fasting day</col>, <cd>a fast day; a day of fasting.</cd></cs>