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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.

To disfigure. [Obs.] Sir T. More.

Unfashionable. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

To form wrongly.

Made in a new form, or lately come into fashion.

Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; adhering to old customs or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl. "Old-fashioned men of wit." Addison. This old-fashioned, quaint abode. Longfellow.

To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time. MacKnight.

The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. [R.] Leigh Hunt.

de. "Dark oblivion soon absorbs them all." Cowper. The large cities absorb the wealth and fashion. W. Irving.

In a cocked or turned up fashion.

The quality of being à la mode; conformity to the mode or fashion; fashionableness. [R.] Southey.