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

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.

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

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

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

State of being fashionable.

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.

A European marine fish (Cottus bubalis), allied to the sculpin; -- called also lucky proach.

t or break forth with a sudden and transient flood of flame and light; as, the lighting flashes vividly; the powder flashed.

rly red hot so that the water as it trickles drop by drop into the tubes is immediately flashed into steam and superheated.

A gas burner with a device for lighting by an electric spark.

A board placed temporarily upon a milldam, to raise the water in the pond above its usual level; a flushboard. [U.S.]

One who, or that which, flashes.

In a flashy manner; with empty show.

The quality of being flashy.

A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass. Knight. Flashing point (Chem.), that degree of temperature at which a volatile oil gives off vapor in sufficient quantity to burn, or flash, on the approach of a flame, used as a test of the comparative safety of oils, esp. kerosene; a flashing po…