fasel 
,*. * [Early mod. E. fasyll; < ME./ase- 
len = D. veee/en = MHG. raslcn, G. faseln, ravel 
out; a freq. form (of. OHG./aso/i, investigate, 
G.fasen, separate the fibers or threads), < AS. 
fees, n., pi. fasu, a fringe: see fass and fass- 
ings, feeze 3 .] To ravel out. 
Facelyn [var. faselyn}, as clothys, villo [vello]. 
Prompt. Parv., p. 150. 
I fasyll out, as sylke or velvet dothe, je ravele ; my 
sleeve is fast/lied, ma manche est ravelee. Palsgrave. 
faselH, [= D. "^e7, a thread, fiber, filament : 
eee faseft, v., and /ass.] 1. A thread. 2. A 
flaw in cloth. Withals; Halliwell. 
fasel 2 , phasel (fas'el), n. [Early mod. E. also 
fesel; < ME. fasel (= F. faseole), < L. faselus, 
faseolus, phaselus, phasellus, < Gr. </>aar/%o(, kid- 
ney-bean.] A kind of kidney-bean or French 
bean. 
Disdain notfesels or poor vetch to sow, 
Or care to make Egyptian lentils thrive. 
May, tr. of Virgil. 
fash 1 (fash), v. [Sc . , < OF. fascher, mo&.fdcher, 
anger, displease, offend, = Pr. fastigar, fasti- 
car = OSp. Jiastiar, Sp. fastidiar = It. fasti- 
diare, disgust, vex, tire, < ML. as if 'fastidiare, 
this form taking the place of L. fastidire, feel 
disgust at, dislike, < L. fastidium ( > It. fastidio 
= Sp. hastio, OSp. fastio = fs.Jfastio = Cat. 
fastig = Pr. fastig, fastic = OF. fasti), dis- 
gust, loathing, aversion : see fastidious.] I. 
trans. To trouble ; annoy ; vex. 
Loudon is fashed with a defluxion. 
Baillie, Letters, I. 215. 
It's as plain as a pike-staff that something is troubling 
her, and may be it will be some of your love nonsense ; 
for it's mainly that as fashes the lasses. Comhill May. 
To fash one's thumb, to give one's self trouble. 
Dear Roger, when your jo puts on her gloom, 
Do ye sae to, and never fash your thumb. 
Ramsay, Poems, II. 71. 
II. intrans. 1. To be annoyed; be vexed. 
The dinner was a little longer of being on the table than 
usual, at which he began to fash. 
Gait, Annals of the Parish, p. 229. 
2. To take trouble ; be at pains : as, you needna 
fash. 3. To be weary. 
You soon fash of a good office. Scotch proverb. 
[Scotch in all uses.] 
fash 1 (fash), n. [Sc., <fasJi,v.~] 1. Trouble; an- 
noyance; vexation. 
O' a' the num'rous human dools, . . . 
The tricks o' knaves, or fash o' fools, 
Thou bear'st the gree. 
Burnt, Address to the Toothache. 
2. Pains; care. 
Without further fash on my part. De Quincey. 
3. A troublesome person : usually in a deroga- 
tory sense. 
fash 2 (fash), n. [Prob. < F. fasce, OF. faisse, 
a band: see fesse and fascia."] 1. The mark 
left by the mold upon a cast bullet. 2. Naut., 
an irregular seam. 
fash 3 (fash), n. [Prob. a dial. var. of /ass.] 1. 
The tops of turnips. 2. A fringe, or a row of 
anything worn like a fringe. [Prov. Eng.] 
fash 4 (fash), a. [Cf. fash*, 1.] Bough: ap- 
plied to metal. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
fashery(fash'er-i),.; pl./asfcen'es(-iz). [Sc.,< 
OF. fascherie, F. fdcherie, anger, displeasure, 
offense, annoyance, < OF. fascher, F. fdcher, 
anger, displease : see fash 1 , n.] Trouble; an- 
noyance; vexation. 
I considered it my duty to submit to many fasheries on 
his account. Qalt. 
She was a religious hypochondriac, it appears, whom, 
not without some cross and fashery of mind and body, he 
[John Knox] was good enough to tend. 
R. L. Stevenson, John Knox. 
fashion 1 (fash'on), n. [< MS.facioun,fasoun, 
make, outward appearance, < L. factio(n-), a 
making (usually in the particular sense of com- 
pany, faction), < facere, make: see fact. Cf. 
faction, a doublet of fashion.'] 1. The make or 
form of anything; the state of anything with re- 
gard to its external appearance or constitution; 
shape : as, the fashion of the ark, or of the taber- 
nacle. 
Of that fair fruit he ate a part, 
And was transformed likewise 
Into the fashion of a hart. 
The Seven Champions of Christendom (Child's Ballads, 
[I. 87). 
King Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the 
ltar. 2 Ki. xvi. 10. 
2148 
By Heaven, I will; 
Or let me lose the fashion of a man ! 
Shak., Hen. VIII., Iv. 2. 
Tread a measure on the stones, 
Madam if I know your sex, 
From the/asAion of your bones. 
Tennyson, Vision of Sin. 
2. Customary make or style in dress, orna- 
ment, furnishings, or anything subject to va- 
riations of taste or established usage ; specifi- 
cally, that mode or style of dress and personal 
adornment prevalent at any time in polished 
or genteel society : as, the latest fashions; what 
so changeable as fashion f 
The fashion wears out more apparel than the man. 
Shak., Much Ado, iii. 3. 
No man mightchangc the fashion vsed in his owne Coun- 
trey, when nee went into another, that all might bee 
knowne of what Countrey they were. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 879. 
In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold ; 
Alike fantastic, if too new or old. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 333. 
Fashion in the distant wilds of Africa tortures and har- 
asses poor humanity as much as in the great prison of 
civilisation. W. H. Flower, Fashion in Deformity, p. 26. 
3. Manner; way; mode. 
Pluck Casca by the sleeve ; 
And he will, after his sour/a#Aio7i, tell you 
What hath proceeded. Shak., J. C., t 2. 
In the Hall was made a Castle, garnished with Artillery 
and Weapons, in a most Warlike Fashion. 
Baker, Chronicles, p. 255. 
If I die, it [my bookl shall come to you in that fashion 
that your letter desires it. Donne, Letters, xiv. 
Our ships had not lain there many days before the Na- 
tives came from all the Country about, and fell a building 
them Houses after their fashion. 
Dampier, Voyages, II. L 13. 
The same word was pronounced and spelt in different 
fashions by English writers living in different localities. 
Trans. Amer. Philol. Ass., XV. 69. 
[In this sense used with a specific adjective or noun to form 
a phrase or a compound noun in adverbial construction : 
as, to ride man-fashion; to speak American fashion.] 
4. Custom ; prevailing practice. 
" 'Twas never my mothers fashion," she said, 
" Nor shall it e'er be mine." 
Rose the Red, and White Lilly (Child's Ballads, V. 178). 
It was the fashion of the age to call everything in ques- 
tion. Tillotson. 
It is almost a Fashion to admire her. 
Cotigreve, Way of the World, i. 9. 
It is the fashion to say that the progress of civilisation 
is favourable to liberty. Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist. 
6. Conformity to the ways of fashionable soci- 
ety; good breeding ; gentility; good style. 
It is strange that men of fashion and gentlemen should 
so grossly belie their own knowledge. Raleigh. 
They [the Sciotes] have about fifty Roman priests, . . . 
and all the Roman catholics of fashion speak Italian very 
well. Pococke, Description of the East, II. ii. 10. 
Lady T. Lud, Sir Peter ! would you have me be out of 
the fashion? 
Sir Peter. Thefashion, indeed ! what had you to do with 
the fashion before you married me? 
Sheridan, School for Scandal, ii. 1. 
6. Fashionable people collectively: as, the 
beauty and fashion of the town were present. 
After a fashion, to a certain extent ; in a sort ; with 
some approach to accuracy or completeness : as, he has 
done it after a fashion. 
The ship's company are paid, so are the bumboat-wo- 
men, the Jews, and the emancipationist after a fashion. 
Marryat. 
In a fashion, in a way ; after a fashion. In fashion, 
in keeping with the prevailing mode, style, or practice. 
He continues to wear a coat and doublet of the same 
cut that were in fashion at the time of his repulse. 
Addison, Spectator, No. 2. 
Out of fashion, not in keeping with prevailing modes or 
practices. =Syn. 1 and 2. Form, Shape, etc. (see figure); 
cut, appearance, cast. 4. Manner, Practice, etc. See w- 
totn. 5. Conventionality, style. 
fashion 1 (fash'on), v. t. [< fashion^, .] 1. To 
form; give shape or figure to; mold: as, to 
fashion toys. 
That is inough for me, seeking but to fashion an art, & 
not to finish it. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesle, p. 104. 
Private repentance they said must appear by every man's 
fashioning his own life contrary unto the customs and 
orders of this present world. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, Pref., viii. 
Shall the clay say to him th&tfashioneth it, What makest 
thou? Isa. xlv. 9. 
In some points it [English law] has been fashioned to 
suit our feelings ; in others, it has gradually fashioned our 
feelings to suit itself. Macaulay, Warren Hastings. 
The country's flinty face, 
Like wax, their fashioning skill betrays. 
Emerson, Monadnoc. 
2. To fit; adapt; accommodate. 
Lawes ought to tie fashioned unto the manners and con- 
ditions of the people to whom they are ment. 
Spenser, State of Ireland. 
fashionist 
Every man must fashion his gait according to his calling. 
Fli tflu'r (and another), Love's Cure, i. 2. 
3f. To frame ; invent ; contrive. 
It better fits my blood to be disdained of all, than to 
fashion a carriage to rob love from any. 
Shak., Much Ado, I 3. 
I'll fashion an excuse. B. Jonson, Volpone, i. 1. 
fashion 2 (fash'on), n. [E. dial. var. of fare in n, 
which is a var. of farcin, q. v.] Same as farcy : 
usually in the plural. [Prov. Eng.] 
His horse, . . . infected with the fashions. 
Shak., T. of theS.,ia 2. 
What shall we learn by travel? 
Fashions f 
That's a beastly disease. 
Dekker, Old Fortunatus. 
If he have outward diseases, as the spavin, splent, ring- 
bone, wind-gall, or fashion, or, sir, a galled back, we let 
him blood. 
Greene and Lodge, Looking Glass for London and England, 
[p. 120. 
fashionable (fash'on-a-bl), a. and n. [<fash- 
ioni + -able.'] I. a. If. Capable of being shaped 
or fashioned. Hieron. 2. Conforming to es- 
tablished fashion, custom, or prevailing prac- 
tice : as, a fashionable dress or hat; fashionable 
opinions. 
There is a set of people whom I cannot bear the pinks 
of fashionable propriety, . . . who, though versed in all 
the categories of polite behavior, have not a particle of 
soul or cordiality about them. T. Chalmers. 
3. Observant of the fashion or customary mode ; 
dressing or behaving according to the prevail- 
ing fashion ; genteel ; polished : as, a fashion- 
able man ; fashionable society. 
For time is like & fashionable host, 
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. 
Shak., T. and C., iii. 3. 
4. Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of people 
of fashion: as, fashionable waste. 
A silly fond conceit of his fair form, 
And just proportion, fashionable mien, 
And pretty face. Cowper, Task, 11. 421. 
5. Patronized, resorted to, or occupied by peo- 
ple of fashion: as, a, fashionable tailor or hatter; 
a fashionable watering-place or neighborhood. 
= Svn. 2. Stylish, customary, usual. 
II. n. A person of fashion : chiefly used in 
the plural: as, this establishment is patronized 
by the fashionables. 
Here was a full accountof the marriage, and a listof all 
the fashionables who attended the fair bride to the hyme- 
neal altar. Miss Edge-worth, Helen, ii. 
Me and the other fash'nables only come last night. 
Dickens, Pickwick Papers, xxxv. 
fashionableness (fash'on-a-bl-nes), n. The 
state or quality of being fashionable; modish 
elegance ; conformity to the prevailing custom 
or style, especially in dress. 
These are the hard tasks of a Christian, worthy of our 
sweat, worthy of our rejoycing, all which that Babylon- 
ish religion shifteth off with a careless fashionablenesse, as 
if it had not to do with the soul. Bp. Ilall, Epistles, iii. 3. 
fashionably (fash'pn-a-bli), adv. In a manner 
accordant with fashion, custom, or prevailing 
practice ; with modish elegance : as, to dress 
fashionably. 
He must at length die dully of old age at home, when 
here he might BO fashionably and genteelly have been du- 
elled or fluxed into another world. South, Sermons, II. 215, 
A mind 
Not yet so blank, or fashionably blind, 
But now and then perhaps a feeble ray 
Of distant wisdom shoots across his way. 
Cowper, Hope, 1. 92. 
fashionalt (fash'on-al), a. [< fashion^ + -ai.] 
Same s,s fashionable. Donne. 
fashionatet (fash'on-at), a. Same as fashion- 
able. Deklcer. 
fashioner (fash'on-er), n. 1. One who fash- 
ions, forms, or gives shape to anything. 
In whiche act, as the man is principall doer and fash- 
ioner, so is the womanne but the matier and sufferer. 
J. Udall, On Cor. xxxi. 
2f. A modiste. 
Is a bugle-maker a lawful calling? or the confect-mak- 
ers? . . . or your French fashioner? 
B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, v. 3. 
The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses 
were brought home. Scott. 
fashioning-needle (fash'on-ing-ne'dl), w. One 
of the needles in a knitting-machine which lift 
loops from some of the bearded needles and 
transfer them to others, in order to widen or 
narrow the work. 
fashionist (fash'on-ist), n. [(fashion 1 + -ist.~\ 
An obsequious follower of the modes and fash- 
ions. [Bare.] 
Many of these ornaments were only temporary, as used 
by the fashionists of that day. 
Fuller, Pisgah Sight uf Palestine, I. Iii. 6. 
