fixing (fiksing)

[Verbal n. of fir, v.] 1. The act of making firm, stable, steadfast, or secure; the act of determining, settling, establishing, or rendering rendering permanent; consolidation; establishment; the proce by which anything is fixed. The fixing of the good hath been practised by two means: vows or constant resolutions, and observances or exercises. Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 300, 2. The act of repairing or putting to rights or in order.-3. In 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 are fixing intended to work at the position where the fixing is situ ated; and when the fixing is adapted to them, it is then commonly called a wheel - fixing. 4. In metal., the coating of the lining of the 2245 been reversed as to certain kinds of fixtures, such as machinery put by a tenant into premises hired for purposes of trade, etc. Hence the ambiguity in meaning. 6. A person who or a thing which holds a fixed place or position; one who or a thing which remains so long in one position as to seem im movable. revolving chamber of the Danks furnace (see puddle ) with a second or working ing lining, accomplished by covering the first lining ining with a melted coating formed of hydrated non-silicious ore of iron mixed with ser scrap-iron; also, the coating so applied. This fixing is analoby degrees to their opinion. go us to the fettling of the ordinary puddling furnace.-5. Establishment in life; the act of setting up in housekeeping, or of furnishing a house. [Colloq.] If Patty would have remained at the castle, she might anywhere else, he would have paid for her fixing , let the have had the command of all; or if she would have gone IMG:content-1407.png:[blocks in formation] 6. pl. Things needed for fixing, preparing, or putting in order; arrangements; embellishments; trimmings; garnishings of any kind: as, railroad fixings. [U. S.] Coffee-cups, eggs, and the inevitable chicken - fixings , which it was henceforth our fate to meet... till we reached New Orleans. Quoted in S. De Vere's American isms, p. 472. fixing-bath (fik's ing-bath), n. 1. In photog ., a chemical solution, usually of hyposulphite of soda in water, for removing from an exposed and developed negative or positive the remaining portion of the sensitive agent which has not been acted upon by light. The negative fixing - bath consists of a strong solution of hyposulphite of soda, in the proportion of five or six ounces to the pint of water. Lea, Photography, p. 35. 2. In leather - manuf., a bath of water acidified with nitric acid and to which a little glycerin is added, used in the proce of tanning with catechu after the catechu-bath, and followed by a final rinsing to remove any free acid from the leather. The tanner removes [the skins] from the previous liquor and prepares a new liquor termed the " fixing bath," consisting of water sufficient to cover the skins. C. T. Davis , Leather, p. 601.