*ashi*

‖n. [ Turkish, light-headed, a foolish fellow. ] A soldier belonging to the irregular troops of the Turkish army. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Turk., prop., chief of a thousand; bin thousand + bash head. ] (Mil.) A major in the Turkish army. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. the process of forcible indoctrination into a new set of attitudes and beliefs. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. caissier, fr. caisse. See Cash. ] One who has charge of money; a cash keeper; the officer who has charge of the payments and receipts (moneys, checks, notes), of a bank or a mercantile company. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Cashiered p. pr. & vb. n. Cashiering. ] [ Earlier cash, fr. F. casser to break, annul, cashier, fr. L. cassare, equiv. to cassum reddere, to annul; cf. G. cassiren. Cf. Quash to annul, Cass. ] 1. To dismiss or discard; to discharge; to dismiss with ignominy from military service or from an office or place of trust. [ 1913 Webster ]

They have cashiered several of their followers. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

He had insolence to cashier the captain of the lord lieutenant's own body guard. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To put away or reject; to disregard. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Connections formed for interest, and endeared [ 1913 Webster ]

By selfish views, [ are ] censured and cashiered. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

They absolutely cashier the literal express sense of the words. Sowth. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who rejects, discards, or dismisses; as, a cashierer of monarchs. [ R. ] Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Banking) A check drawn by a bank upon its own funds, signed by the cashier. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. With clashing. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. [ 1913 Webster ]

There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bold; spirited; showy. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dashing and daring spirit is preferable to the listless. T. Campbell. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Conspicuously; showily. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A dashingly dressed gentleman. Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The character of making ostentatious or blustering parade or show. [ R. & Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He must fight a duel before his claim to . . . dashism can be universally allowed. V. Knox. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Pref. dis- + fashion. See Fashion, and cf. Defeat. ] To disfigure. [ Obs. ] Sir T. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fasoun, facioun, shape, manner, F. facon, orig., a making, fr. L. factio a making, fr. facere to make. See Fact, Feat, and cf. Faction. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fashion of his countenance was altered. Luke ix. 29. [ 1913 Webster ]

I do not like the fashion of your garments. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion. [ 1913 Webster ]

The innocent diversions in fashion. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

As now existing, fashion is a form of social regulation analogous to constitutional government as a form of political regulation. H. Spencer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way. “After his sour fashion.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

After a fashion, to a certain extent; of a sort; sort of. --
Fashion piece (Naut.), one of the timbers which terminate the transom, and define the shape of the stern. --
Fashion plate, a pictorial design showing the prevailing style or a new style of dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Fashioned p. pr. & vb. n. Fashioning. ] [ Cf. F. faconner. ] 1. To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold. [ 1913 Webster ]

Here the loud hammer fashions female toys. Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ingenious art . . .
Steps forth to fashion and refine the age. Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to. [ 1913 Webster ]

Laws ought to be fashioned to the manners and conditions of the people. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To make according to the rule prescribed by custom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fashioned plate sells for more than its weight. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To forge or counterfeit. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fashioning needle (Knitting Machine), a needle used for widening or narrowing the work and thus shaping it. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society. [ 1913 Webster ]

Time is like a fashionable host
That slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being fashionable. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a fashionable manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a certain style or fashion; as, old-fashioned; new-fashioned. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The fashioner had accomplished his task, and the dresses were brought home. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An obsequious follower of the modes and fashions. [ R. ] Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having no fashion. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Behaving like a fashion-monger. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a flashy manner; with empty show. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being flashy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Engineering) The creation of an artificial flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Glass Making) (a) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated. (b) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

Flashing point (Chem.), that degree of temperature at which a volatile oil gives off vapor in sufficient quantity to burn, or flash, on the approach of a flame, used as a test of the comparative safety of oils, esp. kerosene; a flashing point of 100° F. is regarded as a fairly safe standard. The burning point of the oil is usually from ten to thirty degree above the flashing point of its vapor. Usually called flash point. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. knitted to fit the shape of the body; as, full-fashioned hosiery.
Syn. -- fully fashioned. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. entering a gathering uninvited; as, gate-crashing guests disrupted the party. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. With gnashing. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ Ar. hashīsh. ] A slightly acrid gum resin produced by the common hemp (Cannabis sativa), of the variety Indica, when cultivated in a warm climate; also, the tops of the plant, from which the resinous product is obtained. It is narcotic, and has long been used in the East for its intoxicating effect. The active psychoactive principle has been identified as tetrahydrocannabinol. See Bhang, and Ganja.
Syn. -- hash. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

a. Unfashionable. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>n. A steam boiler having two flues which contain the furnaces and extend through the boiler from end to end. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See 2d Lasher. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lashing out, a striking out; also, extravagance. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n.; pl. Mashies /plu>. [ Etym. uncert. ] A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To form wrongly. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Made in a new form, or lately come into fashion. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Formed according to old or obsolete fashion or pattern; belonging to or characteristic of times past; adhering to old customs, styles, or ideas; as, an old-fashioned dress, girl; old-fashioned wire-rimmed glasses. “Old-fashioned men of wit.” Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

This old-fashioned, quaint abode. Longfellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Unacceptable or suboptimum because of having been superseded by something more recent; outmoded{ 2 }; out-of-date. [ Narrower terms: old-fashioned, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee. ]
Syn. -- antique, old-hat(predicate), outmoded, out-of-date. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

3. Unfashionably out of date; out of style. [ Narrower terms: unfashionable (vs. fashionable) ]
Syn. -- demode, out of fashion(predicate), out of style(predicate), passe, passee. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. A cocktail consisting of whiskey, bitters, and sugar, garnished with with fruit slices and often a cherry. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. Excess; exaggeration. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The cutting or bending and intertwining the branches of small trees, as in hedges. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The dashing or sprinkling of coloring matter on the walls of buildings, to imitate granite, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To fashion anew; to form or mold into shape a second time. MacKnight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of refashioning, or the state of being refashioned. [ R. ] Leigh Hunt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being squashy, or soft. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Swaggering; hectoring. “A swashing and martial outside.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Resounding; crushing. “Swashing blow.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. & n. from Thrash, v. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thrashing floor,
Threshing-floor, or
Threshing floor, a floor or area on which grain is beaten out. --
Thrashing machine, a machine for separating grain from the straw. [ 1913 Webster ]