fittingness, fittingnesse

[Eng. fitting; -ne .] The quality or state of being fitting, suitable, or appropriate; suitablene , fitne . "The fittingne e of godfathers promising on behalf of the children for whom they answer."- Bp . Taylor: Great Exemplar , pt. i., desc. vi. *fit-tle, a. [A corrupt. of fickle (q. v.).] Silly. *fit-ton, *fit-ten, s. [FICTION.] A fiction, a fabrication, a fable. *fit-ton, *fit-ten, v. i . [FITTEN, 8.] To form lies or fictions. *fit-tý (1), α. [Eng. fit , s.; -y.] Subject or liable to fits. *fit-tỹ (2), a. [Eng. fit , a.; -y.] Fit, suitable. fitz, pref . [Norm. Fr. fites , fiz ; Fr. fils ; from Lat. filius a son.] A prefix used with surnames to indicate the paternity of the holder of the title, as, Fitzherbert, Fitzgerald , Fitzwilliam. "The Fitzes sometimes permitted themselves to speak with scorn of the Os and Macs."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. vi. five, *fif, *fife, *fyve, a . & 8. [A. S. feif , fife (the true form being finf or fimf ); cogn. with Dut. vijf ; Dan. & Sw. fem ; Icel.fimm; Goth. fimf ; O. H. Ger. fimf , finf ; Ger. fünf : Welsh pumf ; Lat. quinque ; Gr. pempe , pente ; Sans. panchan , all-five.] A. As adj.: Amounting to one more than four; the half of ten. B. As substantive: 1. The number amounting to one more than four; the number consisting of four and one added. 2. A symbol representing such number; as 5 or v. *3. The hand, as containing five fingers. [FIVES.] IMG:content-1692.png:[blocks in formation] The fragments, scraps, the bits and greasy reliques Of her o'ereaten faith are tied to Diomed." IMG:content-1693.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1694.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1695.png:[blocks in formation] fix-ā-tion, s. [Fr., from Lat. fix us , pa. par. of I. Ordinary Language : 1. The act of fixing, settling, or establishing. 2. The quality or state of being fixed, firm, or 3. To stop or prevent from moving. 4. To establish or settle permanently and unalterstable; stability, firmne , steadine . Shakesp.: Othello , v. i. 5. To settle or establish; to locate; as, He fixed his residence in London. "Here let me, though fired in a desert, be free." Cowper : Trans. from Guion. 6. To settle, to arrange, to appoint; as, The meet- ing is fixed for to-day. *12. To pierce, to transfix. (In this sense directly from the Latin.) "While from the raging sword he vainly flies, A bow of steel shall fix his trembling thighs." Sandys: Paraphrase of Job . 13. To bribe; as, to fix a juror, alderman, leg is- lat or, . ( U. S. Slang .) II. Phot .: To give permanence to the picture on a negative or positive. [FIXING, 3.] "No means were then known to make the pictures dur- able as we now say to fix them."-Vogel: Chem- istry of Light and Photography , ch. i., p. 6. B. Intransitive: *1. To become fixed, made fast, or fastened. "The darts of anguish fix not where the seat Of suffering hath been thoroughly fortified." Words worth: Excursion, bk. iv. 2. To rest or cease from moving or wandering; to settle down permanently. "Your kindne banishes your fear, Resolved to fix for ever here." *3. To become firm, so as to lose volatility. *4. To cease to be fluid; to become hard and firm; revolves in the formation of a solid. to be congealed. IMG:content-1696.png:[blocks in formation] 3. Want or absence of volatility. 4. A state of being fixed, firm, or settled firmly in mind or opinion; steadfastne , firmne , resolu- tion. *fix-id-1-ty, s. [Eng. fired ; -ity.] The quality or state of being fixed; fixedne . IMG:content-1697.png:[blocks in formation] 1. Mach .: A piece of cast-iron adapted to carry pillow-blocks and the like. When it is built into a wall it is called a wall-fixing, or wall-box; when attached to a wall by bolts it is a plate-fixing. There are also beam-fixings, as when wheels in tended to work at the position where the fixing is situated; and when the fixing is adapted to them, and scrap are banked up round the boshes, the amount and kind varying with the character of the iron and the construction of the furnace. It is IMG:content-1698.png:[blocks in formation] The act of setting, or placing (2) Firmne , stability, stable state. ( Shakesp .: Troilus and Cre ida , i. 3. [Folio.]) (3) Anything fixed or placed in a firm and fixed position; all clenched and riveted parts of a build- ing. of a second. Struve of St. Petersburg says that stars of the second magnitude have an average par- allax of of a second. But Profe or Airy thinks the astronomical observer cannot accurately split a second into tenths. Besides this, refraction pre- vents observations being as accurate as Struve believes. To diminish the effect of parallax, ob- servations are now made on two stars near each part of the realty. The annexation must be by the 2. Palæobotany : A genus believed to be of fo il palms, founded by Count Sternberg in 1823. Morris, in his British Fo ils, enume- rates two species: one Flabella ria bora ifo- lia , from the coal measures of White- haven and Coal brook Upper Eocene of the Isle of Wight. fla-běl-lāte, subst. [Lat. flab ell at us , pa. par. of flabello =to fan.] 2. Fig .: A person who has remained so long in one place, or office, that it is difficult to remove him. II. Law : A term applied to things of an acce ory nature annexed to houses or lands, so as to become article being set into or united with the land, or till now. with. Thus a shed built upon a frame not let into the earth, is not a fixture. Machines and other things erected for the purposes of trade are not fixt- ures, if they can be removed without material dam- age to the property. Fixtures may not be distrained other in the heavens, the one with no parallax, and the other whose parallax we wish to ascertain. The with some substance previously connected there IMG:content-1699.png:[blocks in formation] sources of error require to be applied. The cele brated astronomer, Be el of Königsberg, used this method for determining the distance of the small star No. 61 Cygni. He found the parallax to be fo of a second, and therefore estimated its distance at 660,000 times the radius of the earth's orbit, or 63,000,000,000,000, that is sixty-three billions of miles [English notation;; or sixty-three trillions by the French system]. Profe or Airy, " is a good one for young astrono- mers to use; but the vast majority of the stars which have been well observed, seem to have a proper motion of their own, and that is known by the term 'proper motion. It is in every case a small quantity. The largest known is that of the small star, 61 Cygni, which moves nearly 3" in a year, and that of a star called Groom bridge, 1830, nearly 4" in a year. The first has very decided par- allax, the second probably has it too, though to a smaller amount. Sirius and Arcturus have also a perceptible proper motion. IMG:content-1700.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1701.png:[blocks in formation] The American Dictionary and Cyclopedia flacker 1846 flagellum