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A suffix signifying full of, abounding with; as, boastful, harmful, woeful.

To pass off in fumes or vapors. Their parts pre kept from fuming away by their fixity. Cheyne.

Macaulay. Sinking fund, the aggregate of sums of money set apart and invested, usually at fixed intervals, for the extinguishment of the debt of a government, or of a corporation, by the accumulation of interest.

ing certain principles in statics, consisting of a cord or chain attached at one end to a fixed point, and having the other passed over a pulley and sustaining a weight, while one or more other weights are suspended from the cord at points between the fixed support and the pulley. -- Funicular polygon (Mech.), the pol…

A suffix signifying to make, to form into, etc.; as, acetify, amplify, dandify, Frenchify, etc.

d to be one of a combination or gang of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed distances apart. -- Gang tide. See Gang week (below). -- Gang tooth, a projecting tooth. [Obs.] Halliwell. -- Gang week, Rogation week, when formerly processions were made to survey the bounds of parishes. Halliwell. --…

A Spanish mode of execution by strangulation, with an iron collar affixed to a post and tightened by a screw until life become extinct; also, the instrument by means of which the punishment is inflicted.

A kind of internal-combustion engine (which see) using fixed gas; also, broadly, any internal-combustion engine.

The jet piece of a gas fixture where the gas is burned as it escapes from one or more minute orifices.

ge to file your worm and groove to equal breadth by. Moxon. There is not in our hands any fixed gauge of minds. I. Taylor.

To fixx the eyes in a steady and earnest look; to look with eagerness or curiosity, as in admiration, astonishment, or with studious attention. Why stand ye gazing up into heaven Acts i. 11.

An Anglo-Saxon prefix. See Y-.

A suffix used in scientific words in the sense of producing, generating: as, amphigen, amidogen, halogen.

A suffix signifying producing, yielding; as, alkaligenous; endogenous.

A suffix signifying bearing, producing; as, calcigerous; dentigerous.

ed by means of a wedge, key, or screw. Gib and key, or Gib and cotter (Steam Engine), the fixed wedge or gib, and the driving wedge,key, or cotter, used for tightening the strap which holds the brasses at the end of a connecting rod.

Stated; fixed; as, in a given time. Given name, the Christian name, or name given by one's parents or guardians, as distinguished from the surname, which is inherited. [Colloq.]

A broadsword fixed on a pike; a kind of halberd.

A weapon formerly used, consisting of a large blade fixed on the end of a pole, whose edge was on the outside curve; also, a light lance with a long sharp-pointed head. Wilhelm.

The locus described by any point attached to a curve that slips continuously on another fixed curve, the movable curve having no rotation at any instant.