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etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason. The glass of fashion and the mold of form. Shak.

The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty. [R.] A. Drummond. Le beau monde Etym: [F.], fashionable society. See Beau monde. -- Demi monde. See Demimonde.

recent; fresh; modern; -- opposed to old, as, a new coat; a new house; a new book; a new fashion. "Your new wife." Chaucer.

Disposed to change; inclined to novelties; given to new theories or fashions. "Newfangled teachers." 1 Tim. vi. (heading). "Newfangled men." Latimer.

Affectation of, or fondness for, novelty; vain or affected fashion or form.

Anew; afresh; freshly. And the refined mind doth newly fashion Into a fairer form. Spenser.

Stylish; modish; elegant; showy; aristocratic; fashionable. [Slang]

are; to see; to perceive; to discover; as, to observe an eclipse; to observe the color or fashion of a dress; to observe the movements of an army.

Old-fashioned; wonted; customary; as of old; as, the good old times; hence, colloquially, gay; jolly.

ight hand, and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory. Mark x. 37. After one, after one fashion; alike. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- At one, in agreement or concord. See At one, in the Vocab. -- Ever in one, continually; perpetually; always. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- In one, in union; in a single whole. -- One and one, One by one…

ished system, as in the conduct of debates or the transaction of business; usage; custom; fashion. Dantiel. And, pregnant with his grander thought, Brought the old order into doubt. Emerson.

cious or offensive particular. "It out-Herods Herod." Shak. Out-Heroding the preposterous fashions of the times. Sir W. Scott.

dress, behavior, or speech. Something outlandish, unearthy, or at variance with ordinary fashion. Hawthorne. --Out*land"ish*ly, adv. -- Out*land"ish*ness, n.

A lady's outer garment, -- of varying fashion.

To go on a picnic, or pleasure excursion; to eat in public fashion.

A former; a fashioner. [R.] "The sovereign plasmator, God Almighty." Urquhart.

Having the power to give form or fashion to a mass of matter; as, the plastic hand of the Creator. Prior. See plastic Nature working to his end. Pope.

nted; hence, an impression from the engraved metal; as, a book illustrated with plates; a fashion plate.

Of many kinds or fashions; multifarious.

Having, or existing in, many different forms or fashions; multiform.