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Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned; new- fashioned.

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

rding 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.

Grown old. Hence: Bygone; obsolete; out of use; old-fashioned; as, an antiquated law. "Antiquated words." Dryden. Old Janet, for so he understood his antiquated attendant was denominated. Sir W. Scott.

An ancient, antiquated, or old-fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.

A place for baggage at either end of an old-fashioned stagecoach.

A small and thick old-fashioned watch. [Colloq.]

Japonica or Japan globeflower, a yellow-flowered, perennial, rosaceous plant, seen in old-fashioned gardens.

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

To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to. Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people. Spenser.

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

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

er; -- a term assumed by deists and skeptics in the eighteenth century. Atheist is an old-fashioned word: I'm a freethinker, child. Addison.

A cross, old-fashioned person; esp., an old woman; a gossip. [Colloq.] Halliwell.

Old-fashioned, as a woman's dress. Our Bell . . . looked very frumpish. Foote.

An apartment or passageway in the fore part of an old-fashioned cabin under the quarter-deck.

m of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. Ex. xxxii. 4.

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

Of or pertaining to a former time; old-fashioned; characterized by simplicity; as, a primitive style of dress.

Characterized by ingenuity or art; finely fashioned; skillfully wrought; elegant; graceful; nice; neat. [Archaic] " The queynte ring." " His queynte spear." Chaucer. " A shepherd young quaint." Chapman. Every look was coy and wondrous quaint. Spenser. To show bow quaint an orator you are. Shak.