Fix /(fĭks)/

Fix

a.
  1. Fixed; solidified. [Obs.]

Fix

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Fixed; p. pr. & vb. n. Fixing

  1. To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.
    An ass's nole I fixed on his head.
    O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence.
    His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
    — Ps. cxii. 7.
    And fix far deeper in his head their stings.
  2. To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.
    Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite.
    One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
  3. To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.]
  4. To render (an impression) permanent by treating with a developer to make it insensible to the action of light. (Photog.)
  5. To put in order; 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, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room. [Colloq. U.S.]
  6. To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling. (Iron Manuf.)

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.
  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.

Phrases & Compounds
To fix on
to settle the opinion or resolution about; to determine regarding; as, the contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.

Fix

n.
  1. A position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma. [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.
  2. fettling. (Iron Manuf.) [U.S.]