Time is like a fashionable host That slightly shakes his parting
guest by the hand.
Shak.
Fash"ion*a*ble, n. A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used
chiefly in the plural.
Fash"ion*a*ble*ness, n. State of being fashionable.
Fash"ion*a*bly, adv. In a fashionable manner.
Fash"ioned (?), a. Having a certain style or fashion; as old-fashioned;
new- fashioned.
Fash"ion*er (?), n. One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to
anything. [R.]
The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were
brought home.
Sir W. Scott.
Fash"ion*ist (?), n. An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions.
[R.] Fuller.
Fash"ion*less, a. Having no fashion.
Fash"ion-mon`ger (?), n. One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy.
Marston.
Fash"ion-mon`ger*ing, a. Behaving like a fashion-monger. [R.] Shak.
Fas"sa*ite (?), n. (Min.) A variety of pyroxene, from the valley of
Fassa, in the Tyrol.
Fast (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fasted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fasting.] [AS.
fÊstan; akin to D. vasten, OHG. fastn, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta,
Dan. faste, Goth. fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast
firm.] 1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or
in part; to go hungry.
Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
Milton.
2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain
from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or
appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
Thou didst fast and weep for the child.