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abstinence
accelerate
adjoin
adscititious
affix
air-jacket
allay
anchor
anchor-hold
angel-shot
angle-rod
apace
aplustre
appear
appoint
armor
asleep
astrict
astricted
astringe
astringing
attach
away
back
ball
band
bar
barred
barring
beak
beard
belace
belay
belayed
belaying
belly-band
belock
bend
bending
betimes
bezel
bind
binding
bit
bite
bitts
boast
boat-rope
boggle
bolt
bolted
bolting
boom
boot
bound
bow
bowline
brail
brank
break
breakfast
breakfasting
breakwater
breastfast
breastrope
bridge
britching
broach
brooch
buckle
buckwheat
buntlines
buoy
buoyrope
burglary
burr
bustard
button
cabled
calends
capreolate
carling
casket
castanet
cat
celestins
chain
chained
chaining
chaplet
clamp
clamping
clasp
clasped
clasping
clatter
clattering
cleat
clew-carnets
clinch
clinched
clincher
clinching
cling
clip
clog
close
closed
closure
clout
cohere
conceal
conclave
conclude
confix
confixed
confixing
confixure
connect
connection
constrain
continue
copper-fastened
cord
corded
cork
counterpoise
couple
coupling
crab
cradle
cramp
cramp-iron
creance
cringle
cross-piece
crucifix
crucifixion
crucify
culvertailed
curb
cuttle
cuttle-fish
cyme
daintily
daintiness
defix
depend
discomfit
dodge
dog
dogvane
double-lock
dove-tail
down-haul
dress
drip
dry
earing
earthbound
edder
embar
ember
enchain
enchained
enchaining
enchase
endure
engrapple
engrasp
ennui
enroot
epicycle
espalier
existent
eye
faint
faith
fascicle
fast
fast-day
fasten
fastened
fastener
fastening
fastidiosity
fastidious
fastidiously
fastidiousness
fastigiate
fastigiated
fasting-day
fastness
fastuous
festival
fetter
fettering
fiddle-string
file
find
firmly
firmness
fix
fixed
fixedly
fixedness
fizgig
flake
flesh
float
foal
foist
foreby
forenoon
form
furl
furled
furling
gabble
gale
gallop
gallows
gammon
gant
garboard
gasket
gather
gird
girder
girth
go
goad
good-friday
grapple
grate
grip
gripe
griping
gripple
grommet
grow
guard
hand
handfast
hang
hanging
hank
hard
hardbound
harping
hasp
headfast
herse
hitch
hitched
hold
holdfast
hook
hooked
hooking
hoop
hooping
hope
hug
hussar
hux
imbead
imbeaded
immovability
immovable
inclasp
inclavated
infix
inlay
instop
interchaining
joined
keelhaul
keelson
key
keystone
knit
knocker
knopped
lace
laced
lacing
ladder
langrel
laniard
lash
lashed
lashing
latch
latchet
lay
leap
leech-line
lent
live
loathingly
loathsome
lock
locked
locket
look
loop
loose
loosely
looseness
lothingly
lothsome
lute
luxury
main-sheet
make
manacle
marl
martinets
martingal
mean
moored
mop
morning
mortification
mortify
mouse
muscle
muzzle
nail
nailed
nailing
nature
netting
news
nice
nicety
norman
open
opener
outfly
outgo
outlicker
outmarch
outride
outsail
outwalk
outwing
overrun
pace
pack
padlock
painter
panch
parrel
paste
patch
pedometer
peg
pegger
penance
pendant
pendent
pendulous
picket
pike
pin
pinchers
pinion
pinned
pinner
plummet
pontoon
powder-chest
proclaim
puddening
pugilism
pump-spear
putty
queasy
raft
ramadan
reduce
reef
reefed
reefing
rein
ribin
rivet
riveted
riveting
rogation-week
rother-nails
ruin
run
sack
sacking
sailer
sandal
saw
scissors
scoop
scorn
screw
screwed
screwing
sealed
sealing
sealing-wax
secured
seize
seized
seizing
sew
shank-painter
sheephook
sheers
sheet
shelf
shoe
shoebuckle
shoestring
shoetye
sitfast
skewer
skid
slack
slat
sloth
snarl
so
sound
soundly
span
spar
spend
spike
spiked
spiking
spread
spred
springe
squeamish
squeamishly
squeamishness
stake
staked
stand
stare
station
staylace
steadfast
steadfastly
steadfastness
sted
stedfast
stedfastly
stedfastness
stern
stern-fast
stick
stickle
stipulate
stirrup
stop
stopper
strap
strength
strike
string
strong-hold
subnect
surcingle
swing
sythe
tack
tag
tail
take
tasses
tenacious
tenaciously
tenaciousness
tenon
thick
thong
thought
tile
together
touch
tradition
trash
tree-nail
trickle
triverbial
trot
trotting
truss
tune
twine
tye
tyed
tying
umbrella
unbar
unbarred
unbarring
unbind
unbolt
unbolted
unbuckle
unbuckled
unbuckling
unbutton
uncertainty
unclasp
uncord
undo
unfix
unlace
unlaced
unlacing
unlink
unlock
unlocked
unopened
unpenned
unpin
unrivet
unriveted
unriveting
unscrew
unsound
unsteadfast
unsteadfastness
untack
untie
untied
untruss
vie
vigil
viper
voluntary
ward
waver
wedge
wedged
wedging
week
whip-stock
whipple-tree
whither
winged
woolded
woolding
wring-bolt
xerophagy



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F'AST, a.

1. Literally, set, stopped, fixed, or pressed close. Hence, close; tight; as, make fast the door; take fast hold.

2. Firm; immovable.

Who by his strength, setteth fast the mountains. Ps. 115.

3. Close; strong.

Robbers and outlaws - lurking in woods and fast places.

4. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; as, to stick fast in more; to make fast a rope.

5. Close, as sleep; deep; sound; as a fast sleep.

6. Firm in adherence; as a fast friend.

Fast and loose, variable; inconstant; as, to play fast and loose.

F'AST, adv. Firmly; immovably.

We will bind thee fast, and deliver thee into their hand. Judges 15.

F'AST, a. [L. festino. The sense is to press, drive, urge, and it may be from the same root as the preceding word, with a different application.]

Swift; moving rapidly; quick in motion; as a fast horse.

F'AST, adv. Swiftly; rapidly; with quick steps or progression; as, to run fast; to move fast through the water, as a ship; the work goes on fast.

F'AST, v.i.

1. To abstain from food, beyond the usual time; to omit to take the usual meals, for a time; as, to fast a day or a week.

2. To abstain from food voluntarily, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, sorrow and affliction.

Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2Sam. 12.

When ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance. Matt. 6.

3. To abstain from food partially, or from particular kinds of food; as, the Catholics fast in Lent.

F'AST, n.

1. Abstinence from food; properly a total abstinence, but it is used also for an abstinence from particular kinds of food, for a certain time.

Happy were our forefathers, who broke their fasts with herbs.

2. Voluntary abstinence from food, as a religious mortification or humiliation; either total or partial abstinence from customary food, with a view to mortify the appetites, or to express grief and affliction on account of some calamity, or to deprecate an expected evil.

3. The time of fasting, whether a day, week or longer time. An annual fast is kept in New England, usually one day in the spring.

The fast was now already past. Act. 27.

F'AST, n. That which fastens or holds.

1913 Definition
Fast (fast)
v. i.(?)
Fast
[imp. *** p. p. Fasted] p. pr. *** vb. n. Fasting.] [AS. fæ]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG. fast***emacr]n, G. fasten, Icel. *** Sw. fasta,
  1. To abstain from food] to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

    Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. Milton.

  2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.

    Thou didst fast and weep for the child. 2 Sam. xii. 21.

    Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.

  3. Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.

    Surfeit is the father of much fast. Shak.

  4. Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
  5. A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.

    Fast day, a day appointed for fasting, humiliation, and religious offices as a means of invoking the favor of God. -- To break one's fast, to put an end to a period of abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's morning meal; to breakfast. Shak.

  6. Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.

    There is an order that keeps things fast. Burke.

  7. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.

    Outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast places. Spenser.

  8. Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
  9. Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
  10. Tenacious; retentive.
    [Obs.]

    Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. Bacon.

  11. Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.

    All this while in a most fast sleep. Shak.

  12. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
  13. Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
    Thackeray.

    Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined; inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose, to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do another. "Play fast and loose with faith." Shak. - - Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and reëngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice versa. -- Hard and fast (Naut.), so completely aground as to be immovable. -- To make fast (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly, as a vessel, a rope, or a door.

  14. In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.

    We will bind thee fast. Judg. xv. 13.

  15. In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.

    Fast by, or Fast beside, close or near to; near at hand.

    He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk
    Into the wood fast by.     Milton.

    Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides. Pope.

  16. That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; - - called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
  17. In such a condition, as to resilience, etc., as to make possible unusual rapidity of play or action; as, a fast racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table, etc.
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