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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.

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.]

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

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

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

liever; -- 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.

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.

Old-fashioned; queer; odd; as, a rum idea; a rum fellow. [Slang] Dickens.

ireship, for the escape of the men into boats when the train is fired; a large port in an old-fashioned three-decker or a large modern ironclad.

ugh the forecastle deck, with a triangular shackle in the head to receive the heel of the old-fashioned fish davit. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Observant of tradition; attached to old customs; old-fashioned. [R.] Shak.

bserve it by holding religious meetings lasting until after midnight. -- Watch paper, an old-fashioned ornament for the inside of a watch case, made of paper cut in some fanciful design, as a vase with flowers, etc. -- Watch tackle (Naut.), a small, handy purchase, consisting of a tailed double block, and a single bl…