4. (Photog.) To render (an impression) permanent by treating with such
applications as will make it insensible to the action of light. Abney.
5. To put in order; to arrange; to dispose of; to adjust; to set to
rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; hence,
to repair; as, to fix the clothes; to fix the furniture of a room.
[Colloq. U.S.]
6. (Iron Manuf.) To line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with
fettling.
Syn. -- To arrange; prepare; adjust; place; establish; settle;
determine.
Fix, v. i. 1. To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to
cease from wandering; to rest.
Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here.
Waller.
2. To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or
be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic
substance. 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.