fixed; solidified.-to make firm, stable, or fast; to set or place permanently; to fasten immovably; to establish; to implant; to secure; to make definite.-to hold steadily; to direct unwaveringly; to fasten, as the eye on an object, the attention on a speaker.-to transfix; to pierce.-to render (an impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensible to the action of light.-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.-to line the hearth of (a puddling furnace) with fettling.-to become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest.-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.-a position of difficulty or embarassment; predicament; dilemma.-fettling.