Definition of Fixature

1. a hair fixing preparation [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fixature

fixatif
fixatifs
fixating
fixation
fixation disparity
fixation nystagmus
fixation reaction
fixational
fixational ocular movement
fixations
fixative
fixatives
fixator
fixator muscle
fixators
fixature (current term)
fixatures
fixe
fixed
fixed-combination drug
fixed-cycle operation
fixed-gear bicycle
fixed-income
fixed-point
fixed-point notation
fixed-point number
fixed-point part
fixed-point representation system
fixed-rate pacemaker
fixed-term

Literary usage of Fixature

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Catalogue of Early Prints in the British Museum by William Hughes Willshire (1883)
"A mark from the hole of fixature is at the lower margin. 2. THE BLESSED VIRGIN OF THE ... The mark from the hole for fixature is by the feet of the Virgin. ..."

2. A descriptive catalogue of early prints in the British museum. German and by William Hughes Willshire (1883)
"The mark from the hole for fixature is by the feet of the Virgin. The engraving is cut away at the left-hand lower corner. 3. ST. BARBARA. ..."

3. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1871)
"... it was the rarest thing in the world for us to be able to recognise malignant disease unless it had advanced so far as to cause fixature of the uterus. ..."

4. A Modern Instance by William Dean Howells (1881)
"His barber had for many years been in the habit of saying, as he applied the stick of fixature to Tonelli's mustache, and gave it a jaunty upward curl, ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1877)
"... but the whole member could be lifted by a conjoined fixature of the deltoid and triceps. Further examination showed anaesthesia of the right mamma, ..."

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