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Unfix   Listen
verb
Unfix  v. t.  
1.
To loosen from a fastening; to detach from anything that holds; to unsettle; as, to unfix a bayonet; to unfix the mind or affections.
2.
To make fluid; to dissolve. (R.) "The mountain stands; nor can the rising sun Unfix her frosts."





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Unfix" Quotes from Famous Books



... Achitophel was first; A name to all succeeding ages curst: For close designs and crooked counsels fit; Sagacious, bold, and turbulent of wit; Restless, unfix'd in principles and place; In pow'r unpleas'd, impatient of disgrace: A fiery soul which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. DRYDEN, Absalom ...
— The Principles of English Versification • Paull Franklin Baum
... loosened the soil from the auriferous rock, even while the swollen stream was carrying their impotent and shattered engines to the sea. What mattered that his single arm could not lift the treasure he had found; what mattered that to unfix those glittering stars would still tax both skill and patience! The work was done, the goal was reached! even his boyish impatience was content with that. He rose slowly to his feet, unstrapped his long-handled shovel from his back, secured ...
— Frontier Stories • Bret Harte


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