a. and adv. Obs. [f. TAPER sb.1 + FASHION sb.] Of or in the fashion or form of a taper; taper-like in shape; tapering, tapered.
1545. Ascham, Toxoph. (Arb.), 126. Those [stales, i.e., stems of arrows] that be lytle brested and big toward the hede called by theyr lykenesse taperfashion, reshe growne.
1551. Recorde, Cast. Knowl. (1556), 147. Then doth the shadow [in an eclipse] growe lesser and lesser in spyre forme, or taper fashion.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., Of Lues Venerea, vi. 72–3. I proceeded in the use of French Candles which were made Taper fashion, and passed one over the great Caruncle bound in on, and left it lying upon it, and directed the Patient to take it out upon occasion of urining, and afterward to pass it again.
1790. trans. Paré, in Trans. R. Irish Acad., IV. 130. The head of which [the hand-trepan] is made taper fashion, smaller at the teeth and greater upwards, with cutting edges round about on the outside, to make way for itself.
