Fix1, n.
n. A position of difficulty or embarrassment; predicament; dilemma. [Colloq.] Is he not living, then? No. Is he dead, then? No, nor dead either. Poor Awar can not live, and can not die; so that he is in an almighty fix. De Quincey.
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Fix
Fix2, v. t.
[imp. & p. p. FIXED (fĭkst); p. pr. & vb. n. FIXING.] [Fr. fixer, Sp. & Pg. fixar, It. fissare, from Lat. figere, fixum.] 1. To make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to establish; to make definite; to determine. O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence. Herbert. 2. To hold steadily, or without moving, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker, and the like. Sat fixed in thought the mighty Stagirite. Pope. 3. To implant; to transfix; to pierce. And fix far deeper in his head their stings. Milton. 4. To put in order; to arrange; to adjust; to set to rights; to set or place in the manner desired or most suitable; as, to fix the clothes or dress; to fix the furniture of a room. [U. S.] This very common Americanism has no sanction in English usage. Syn.—To arrange; prepare; adjust; place; establish; settle; determine.
Fix3, v. i.
v. i. 1. To settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here. Waller.
Sense 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 on; to determine on; as, the contracting parties have fixed on certain leading points.