·v Tenacious; retentive.
II. Fast ·noun The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
III. Fast ·v Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
IV. Fast ·vi Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
V. Fast ·v Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
VI. Fast ·v Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
VII. Fast ·adj In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
VIII. Fast ·vi To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
IX. Fast ·v Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
X. Fast ·adj In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
XI. Fast ·v Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
XII. Fast ·v Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
XIII. Fast ·vi Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
XIV. Fast ·v Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
XV. Fast ·vi 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.
XVI. Fast ·add. ·adj 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.
XVII. Fast ·vi 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.
XVIII. Fast ·noun 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.