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noun

Firm n. The name, title, or style, under which a company transacts business; a partnership of two or more persons; a commercial house; as, the firm of Hope & Co.

adjective

Firm adj. (compar. firmer; superl. firmest)

Fixed; hence, closely compressed; compact; substantial; hard; solid; applied to the matter of bodies; as, firm flesh; firm muscles, firm wood.

Not easily excited or disturbed; unchanging in purpose; fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily changed in feelings or will; strong; as, a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent. "Under spread ensigns, moving nigh, in slow But firm battalion." "By one man's firm obediency fully tried."

Solid; opposed to fluid; as, firm land.

Indicating firmness; as, a firm tread; a firm countenance.

Synonyms: Compact; dense; hard; solid; stanch; robust; strong; sturdly; fixed; steady; resolute; constant.

verb

Firm v. t.

To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish. (Obs.) "And Jove has firmed it with an awful nod."

To fix or direct with firmness. (Obs.) "He on his card and compass firms his eye."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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— Psychology - A Study Of Mental Life • Robert S. Woodworth

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— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... under her aunt's vigilant guardianship, was inconsolable. She languished and drooped, during the first week or two of her exile, as though her usually firm will had died within her. So utterly broken did she seem that her aunt began to lose all hope of rousing her to any interest in life; apparently she was submitting in a spirit of blank despair to a fate which she regarded as inevitable. ...

— Up in Ardmuirland • Michael Barrett

... between the hundred francs of expense, and the joys of a Strasbourg pate de fois gras, you are struck dumb on finding this pate proudly installed on the sideboard of your dining-room. Is this the vision offered by some gastronomic mirage? In this doubting mood you approach with firm step, for a pate is a living creature, and seem to neigh as you scent afar off the truffles whose perfumes escape through the gilded enclosure. You stoop over it two distinct times; all the nerve centres ...

— Analytical Studies • Honore de Balzac

... for deliberation, and yet the slightest act of carelessness would destroy him and his friends. A single spark falling from the long wick would be ruin. A firm hand and a brave heart were required to do that apparently simple act—to withdraw the taper from the cask. It must be done at that moment! He heard Sir Henry calling him to take the helm. Planting ...

— True Blue • W.H.G. Kingston

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