'Fashioning' definitions:

Definition of 'fashioning'

(from WordNet)
noun
The act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making" [syn: devising, fashioning, making]

Definition of 'Fashioning'

From: GCIDE
  • Fashion \Fash"ion\, 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]

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