To pierce; now generally replaced by transfix. • (Of a piercing look) to direct at someone. • To attach; to affix; to hold in place or at a particular time. • To focus or determine (oneself, on a concept); to fixate. • To prevent enemy pawns from advancing by directly opposing the most advanced one with one of one's own pawns so as to threaten to capture any advancing backward pawns. • To mend, to repair. • To be immensely pleasurable to. • To prepare (food or drink). • To make (a contest, vote, or gamble) unfair; to privilege one contestant or a particular group of contestants, usually before the contest begins; to arrange immunity for defendants by tampering with the justice system via bribery or extortion. • To surgically render an animal, especially a pet, infertile. • To map (a point or subset) to itself. • To take revenge on, to best; to serve justice on an assumed miscreant. • To render (a photographic impression) permanent by treating with such applications as will make it insensitive to the action of light. • To convert into a stable or available form. • To become fixed; to settle or remain permanently; to cease from wandering; to rest. • To become firm, so as to resist volatilization; to cease to flow or be fluid; to congeal; to become hard and malleable, as a metallic substance. • To shoot up; to inject a drug. • To arrange (an event etc.).