FPage 48
- English Word Fast Definition Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
- English Word Fast Definition Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
- English Word Fast Definition Tenacious; retentive.
- English Word Fast Definition Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
- English Word Fast Definition Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
- English Word Fast Definition Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
- English Word Fast Definition In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
- English Word Fast Definition In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
- English Word Fast Definition 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.
- English Word Fast Definition The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
- English Word Fast-handed Definition Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.
- English Word Fasted Definition of Fast
- English Word Fasten Definition To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.
- English Word Fasten Definition To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
- English Word Fasten Definition To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
- English Word Fasten Definition To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
- English Word Fastened Definition of Fasten
- English Word Fastener Definition One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
- English Word Fastening Definition of Fasten
- English Word Fastening Definition Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.