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<h1>Fives</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fives</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>A kind of play with a ball against a wall, resembling tennis; -- so named because three <i>fives</i>, or <i>fifteen</i>, are counted to the game.</def>

<i>Smart.</i>

<cs><col>Fives court</col>, <cd>a place for playing fives.</cd></cs>

<h1>Fives</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fives</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[See <er>Vives</er>.]</ety> <def>A disease of the glands under the ear in horses; the vives.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Five-twenties</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Five`-twen"ties</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n. pl.</tt> <def>Five-twenty bonds of the United States (bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65, redeemable after <i>five</i> and payable in <i>twenty</i> years.</def>

<h1>Fix</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fix</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[OE., fr. L. <ets>fixus</ets>, p.p. of <ets>figere</ets> to fix; cf. F. <ets>fixe</ets>.]</ety> <def>Fixed; solidified.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Fix</h1> <Xpage=565>

<hw>Fix</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Fixed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Fixing</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>fixer</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make efinite.</def>

<blockquote>An ass's nole I <b>fixed</b> on his head. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>O, <b>fix</b> thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also <b>fix</b> their reverence. <i>Herbert.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>His heart is <b>fixed</b>, trusting in the Lord. <i>Ps. cxii. 7.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>And <b>fix</b> far deeper in his head their stings. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.</def>

<blockquote>Sat <b>fixed</b> in thought the mighty Stagirite. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>One eye on death, and one full <b>fix'd</b> on heaven. <i>Young.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To transfix; to pierce.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sandys.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Photog.)</fld> <def>To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications a will make it insensible to the action of light.</def>

<i>Abney.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>To put in prder; 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>as, to <ex>fix</ex> the clothes; to <ex>fix</ex> the furniture of a room.</as></def> <mark>[Colloq. U.S.]</mark>

<p><b>6.</b> <fld>(Iron Manuf.)</fld> <def>To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.</def>

<syn>Syn. -- To arrange; prepare; adjust; place; establis; settle; determine.</syn>