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credit; to lessen reputation; to derogate; to defame; -- often with from. It has been the fashion to detract both from the moral and literary character of Cicero. V. Knox.

A cloak of a peculiar fashion worn by women.

Of or pertaining to the ancient Greeks of Doris; Doric; as, a Dorian fashion.

A noisy, tumultuous assembly of fashionable people at a private house; a rout. [Archaic] Not unaptly styled a drum, from the noise and emptiness of the entertainment. Smollett.

A kind of dandy; especially, one characterized by an ultrafashionable style of dress and other affectations. [Recent] The social dude who affects English dress and English drawl. The American.

To form as an effigy; hence, to fashion; to adapt. [He must] effigiate and conform himself to those circumstances. Jer. Taylor.

To form; to fashion. [Obs.] Spenser.

A compact or condensed representation of anything. An epitome of English fashionable life. Carlyle. A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome. Dryden.

anies it, as horses, liveried servants, etc., a showy turn-out. The rumbling equipages of fashion . . . were unknown in the settlement of New Amsterdam. W. Irving.

or pass away like vapor; vanishing; fleeting; as, evanescent joys. So evanescent are the fashions of the world in these particulars. Hawthorne.

into disrepute, and reject; to drive from notice and acceptance; as, to explode a scheme, fashion, or doctrine. Old exploded contrivances of mercantile fraud. Burke. To explode and exterminate dark atheism. Bently.

Something new-fashioned; a foolish innovation; a gewgaw; a trifling ornament.

Manner; custom; fashion; humor. [Prov. Eng.] [Written also farand.] Grose.

Short curls dangling over the temples; -- fashionable in the reign of Charles II. [Obs.] Farquhar.

To form; to fashion. [Obs.] To the more mature, A glass that feated them. Shak.

Shaped; fashioned. How noble, young, how rarely featured! Shak.

by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape. If love, alas! be pain I bear, No thought can figure, and no tongue declare.Prior.

y; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor. The fineness of the gold, and chargeful fashion. Shak.

A hand firearm fitted with a flintlock; esp., the old-fashioned musket of European and other armies.

coquette; a pert girl. Several young flirts about town had a design to cast us out of the fashionable world. Addison.