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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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. 
 
  Here  the  loud  hammer  fashions  female  toys.  --Gay. 
 
  Ingenious  art  .  .  .  Steps  forth  to  fashion  and 
  refine  the  age.  --Cowper. 
 
  2.  To  fit  to  adapt;  to  accommodate;  --  with  to 
 
  Laws  ought  to  be  fashioned  to  the  manners  and 
  conditions  of  the  people.  --Spenser. 
 
  3.  To  make  according  to  the  rule  prescribed  by  custom. 
 
  Fashioned  plate  sells  for  more  than  its  weight. 
  --Locke. 
 
  4.  To  forge  or  counterfeit.  [Obs.]  --Shak. 
 
  {Fashioning  needle}  (Knitting  Machine),  a  needle  used  for 
  widening  or  narrowing  the  work  and  thus  shaping  it 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  fashioning 
  n  :  the  act  that  results  in  something  coming  to  be  "the 
  devising  of  plans";  "the  fashioning  of  pots  and  pans"; 
  "the  making  of  measurements"  [syn:  {devising},  {making}] 

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