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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
fetching
    adj 1: very attractive; capturing interest; "a fetching new
           hairstyle"; "something inexpressibly taking in his
           manner"; "a winning personality" [syn: fetching,
           taking, winning]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
fetching \fetching\ adj.
   drawing favorable attention; as, a fetching new hat.

   Syn: appealing, taking, winning.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Fetch \Fetch\ (f[e^]ch; 224), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fetched 2;
   p. pr. & vb. n.. Fetching.] [OE. fecchen, AS. feccan, perh.
   the same word as fetian; or cf. facian to wish to get,
   OFries. faka to prepare. [root]77. Cf. Fet, v. t.]
   1. To bear toward the person speaking, or the person or thing
      from whose point of view the action is contemplated; to go
      and bring; to get.
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            Time will run back and fetch the age of gold.
                                                  --Milton.
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            He called to her, and said, Fetch me, I pray thee, a
            little water in a vessel, that I may drink. And as
            she was going to fetch it he called to her, and
            said, Bring me, I pray thee, a morsel of bread in
            thine hand.                           --1 Kings
                                                  xvii. 11, 12.
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   2. To obtain as price or equivalent; to sell for.
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            Our native horses were held in small esteem, and
            fetched low prices.                   --Macaulay.
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   3. To recall from a swoon; to revive; -- sometimes with to;
      as, to fetch a man to.
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            Fetching men again when they swoon.   --Bacon.
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   4. To reduce; to throw.
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            The sudden trip in wrestling that fetches a man to
            the ground.                           --South.
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   5. To bring to accomplishment; to achieve; to make; to
      perform, with certain objects; as, to fetch a compass; to
      fetch a leap; to fetch a sigh.
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            I'll fetch a turn about the garden.   --Shak.
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            He fetches his blow quick and sure.   --South.
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   6. To bring or get within reach by going; to reach; to arrive
      at; to attain; to reach by sailing.
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            Meantine flew our ships, and straight we fetched
            The siren's isle.                     --Chapman.
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   7. To cause to come; to bring to a particular state.
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            They could n't fetch the butter in the churn. --W.
                                                  Barnes.
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   To fetch a compass (Naut.), to make a circuit; to take a
      circuitous route going to a place.

   To fetch a pump, to make it draw water by pouring water
      into the top and working the handle.

   To fetch headway or To fetch sternway (Naut.), to move
      ahead or astern.

   To fetch out, to develop. "The skill of the polisher
      fetches out the colors [of marble]" --Addison.

   To fetch up.
      (a) To overtake. [Obs.] "Says [the hare], I can fetch up
          the tortoise when I please." --L'Estrange.
      (b) To stop suddenly.
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