FIX
Fix, v. i.
1. To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from
wandering; to rest.
Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here.
Waller.
2. To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. Bacon. To fix on, to settle the opinion or resolution about; to determine regarding; as, the contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.
FIX
Fix, n.
1. A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dillema. [Colloq.] Is he not living, then No. is he dead, then No, nor dead either. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, — so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey.
2. (Iron Manuf.)
Defn: fettling. [U.S.]
FIXABLE
Fix"a*ble, a.
Defn: Capable of being fixed.
FIXATION
Fix*a"tion, n. Etym: [Cf. F. fixation.]