Fettling \Fet"tling\, n.

1. (Metal.) A mixture of ore, cinders, etc., used to line the hearth of a puddling furnace. [Eng.]

[It is commonly called fix in the United States.]

2. (Pottery) The operation of shaving or smoothing the surface of undried clay ware.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Fix \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.

2. (Iron Manuf.) fettling. [U.S.]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Fix \Fix\ (f[i^]ks), a. [OE., fr. L. fixus, p. p. of figere to fix; cf. F. fixe.]

Fixed; solidified. [Obs.]

--Chaucer.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Fix \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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Fix \Fix\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fixed (f[i^]kst); 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.

3. To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.]

--Sandys.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)