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FASCICULATE; FASCICULATED a.

Grouped in a fascicle; fascicled.

A small bunch or bundle; a fascicle; as, a fascicule of fibers, hairs, or spines.

FASCICULUS n. 2 definitions

A little bundle; a fascicle.

FASCINATE v. 2 definitions

; to enchant. It has been almost universally believed that . . . serpents can stupefy and fascinate the prey which they are desirous to obtain. Griffith (Cuvier).

FASCINATION n. 3 definitions

The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination. Waller.…

A cylindrical bundle of small sticks of wood, bound together, used in raising batteries, filling ditches, strengthening ramparts, and making parapets; also in revetments for river banks, and in mats for dams, jetties, etc.

Caused or acting by witchcraft. [Obs.] "Fascinous diseases." Harvey.

A band of gray matter bordering the fimbria in the brain; the dentate convolution. Wilder.

A band of minute tubercles, bearing modified spines, on the shells of spatangoid sea urchins. See Spatangoidea.

FASH n. 2 definitions

Vexation; anxiety; care. [Scot.] Without further fash on my part. De Quincey.

FASHION n. 8 definitions

of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc. ; workmanship; execution. The fashion of his countenance was altered. Luke ix. 29. I do not like the fashion of your garments. Shak.

FASHION-MONGER n.

One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.

FASHION-MONGERING a.

Behaving like a fashion-monger. [R.] Shak.

FASHIONABLE a. 5 definitions

Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.

FASHIONABLENESS n.

State of being fashionable.

FASHIONABLY adv.

In a fashionable manner.

Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.

One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. [R.] The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. Sir W. Scott.

An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. [R.] Fuller.

Having no fashion.