Five"fold` (?), a. & adv. In fives; consisting of five in one; five
repeated; quintuple.
Five"-leaf` (?), n. Cinquefoil; five-finger.
{ Five"-leafed` (?), Five"-leaved` (?) }, a. (Bot.) Having five
leaflets, as the Virginia creeper.
Five"ling (?), n. (Min.) A compound or twin crystal consisting of five
individuals.
Fives (fvz), n. pl. A kind of play with a ball against a wall,
resembling tennis; -- so named because three fives, or fifteen, are
counted to the game. Smart.
Fives court, a place for playing fives.
Fives, n. [See Vives.] A disease of the glands under the ear in horses;
the vives. Shak.
Five`-twen"ties (?), n. pl. Five- twenty bonds of the United States
(bearing six per cent interest), issued in 1862, '64, and '65,
redeemable after five and payable in twenty years.
Fix (fks), a. [OE., fr. L. fixus, p. p. of figere to fix; cf. F. fixe.]
Fixed; solidified. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Fix, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fixed (fkst); p. pr. & vb. n. Fixing.] [Cf. F.
fixer.] 1. To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently;
to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make
definite.
An ass's nole I fixed on his head.
Shak.
O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their
reverence.
Herbert.
His heart is fixed, trusting in the Lord.
Ps. cxii. 7.
And fix far deeper in his head their stings.
Milton.
2. To hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on
an object, the attention on a speaker.
Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite.
Pope.
One eye on death, and one full fix'd on heaven.
Young.