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"Section F, G and H"

, in the
fashion.


The innocent diversions in
fashion.
Locke.


As now existing, fashion is a form of social
regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of
political regulation.
H. Spencer.


3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life;
social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.


4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner;
custom; sort; way.
"After his sour fashion."
Shak.


After a fashion, to a certain extent; in a
sort.
-- Fashion piece (Naut.), one
of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of
the stern.
-- Fashion plate, a pictorial
design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress.


Fash"ion, v. t. [imp. & p.
p.
Fashioned (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Fashioning.] [Cf. F. faconner.] 1.
To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.


Here the loud hammer fashions female
toys.


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