fixture (fikstur)

[ The firm fixture of thy foot would give an excellent motion to thy gait, in a semicircled farthingale. The Money- Makers , p. 131. Gin fizz. See gin - fizz . fizzenle , fi enle (fiz'en-les), a . [Var. of foisonle , q. v.] Pithle ; weak. Also fusion- le . [Scotch.] I will not wait upon the thowle , thriftle , fi enle ministry of that carnal man, John Half text, the curate. Scott , Old Mortality, v. fizzle (fiz'l), v.; pret. and pp. fizzled, ppr. fiz Shak., M. W. of W., iii. 3. zling. [Also fi le; freq. of fizz, v., q. v. Cf. 2. Fixedne ; steadfastne . [Rare.] I never beheld eyes that looked so inspired, so supernatural. They were like fires, half burning, half smoul. dering, with a sort of acrid fixture of regard. Leigh Hunt, quoted in Lowell's Among my Books, [2d ser., p. 234. 3. A fixed or appointed time or event; a definite arrangement; an appointment: especially used with reference to sports. [Eng.] The subscriber expects to have a card sent to him with the cub-hunting fixtures , and there are many who will go a long distance for a gallop through the woodlands in the early morning. Edinburgh Rev. , CLXVI. 410. 4. Anything placed in a firm or fixed position; something fixed and not intended to be removed; specifically, that which is fixed to a building; any appendage or part of the furniture of a house which is fixed to it, as by nails, screws, etc.: as, gas - fixtures.-5. In law, a personal chattel annexed or fastened to real property. In regard to the right of severance and removal, the term is used in two directly contradictory senses: (a) A chattel so annexed, which has thereby become in law part of the real property, and cannot legally be severed and removed without consent of the owner of the real property. This was the original use. ( b ) A personal chattel so annexed, but which remains in law a chattel, and may be severed and removed at will by the person who has annexed it, or his representative. Originally, chattels became part of the property to which they were attached, and were not legally removable except with the consent of the owner of the real property; but in more recent times the rule has sizzle, whistle.] I. in trans. 1. To make a hi ing sound; hi or sputter, as a liquid or gas forced out of a narrow aperture, or a liquid discharging gas, or a wet combustible, as wood or gunpowder, burning: usually with special reference to the weakne and sudden diminution or ce ation of such sound. Hence-2. To stop abruptly after a more or le brilliant start; come to a sudden and lame conclusion; fail ignominiously; specifically, in school and college slang, to fail in a recitation or an ex am in at i on: often with out: as, the undertaking promised well, but it soon fizzled out; nearly the whole cla fizzled in calculus. [Colloq. or slang.] Fizzle : To rise with modest reluctance, to hesitate often, to decline finally: generally, to misunderstand the question. Yale Literary Mag., XIV. 144. The factions and revolutionary action of the fifteen has interrupted the regular busine of the Senate, disgraced the actors, and fizzled out. 3. To break wind. [Colloq.] Gazette (Cincinnati). It is the easiest thing, sir, to be done, As plain as fizzling ; rowle but wi' your eyes, And foame at th' mouth. B. Jonson, Devil is an A , v. 3. II. trans. In school and college slang, to examine (a student) with the result of failure on his part: as, the profe or fizzled nearly the whole cla .