Properly, fixed; hence, applied to the matter of bodies, it signifies closely compressed; compact; hard; solid; as firm flesh; firm muscles; some species of wood are more firm than others; a cloth of firm texture.

Fixed; steady; constant; stable; unshaken; not easily moved; as a firm believer; a firm friend; a firm adherent or supporter; a firm man, or a man of firm resolution.

Solid; not giving way; opposed to fluid; as firm land.

A partnership or house; or the name or title under which a company transact business; as the firm of Hope & Co.

ferm. To fix; to settle; to confirm; to establish. And Jove has firm’d it with an awful nod. This word is rarely used, except in poetry. In prose, we use confirm.