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"Section F, G and H"

Bacon.


To fix on, to settle the opinion or
resolution about; to determine regarding; as, the contracting parties
have fixed on certain leading points.


Fix, n. 1. A
position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.

[Colloq.]


Is he not living, then? No. is he dead, then? No, nor
dead either. Poor Aroar can not live, and can not die, -- so that he
is in an almighty fix.
De Quincey.


2. (Iron Manuf.) fettling.
[U.S.]


Fix"a*ble (-&adot;*b'l), a.
Capable of being fixed.


Fix*a"tion (f&ibreve;ks*ā"shŭn),
n. [Cf. F. fixation.] 1.
The act of fixing, or the state of being fixed.


An unalterable fixation of
resolution.
Killingbeck.


To light, created in the first day, God gave no proper
place or fixation.
Sir W. Raleigh.


Marked stiffness or absolute fixation of a
joint.


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