Fasting: alternatives and connections

To stick fast or cleave, as a glutinous substance does; to become joined or united; as, wax to the finger; the lungs sometimes adhere…

Any instrument or contrivance serving a purpose like that of a ship's anchor, as an arrangement of timber to hold a dam fast; a contri…

With a quick pace; quick; fast; speedily.

To bind fast; to constrict; to contract; to cause parts to draw together; to compress.

To bind, fasten, tie, or connect; to make fast or join; as, to attach one thing to another by a string, by glue, or the like.

The name of two Mohammedan festivals, of which one is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan, and the other seventy days after t…

A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.

fast-growing sturdy Japanese fern; cultivated for their attractive broad dark-green pinnate fronds

To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel.

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground.

To play fast and loose; to dissemble.

To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in the day.

A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle.

A fast of forty days on bread and water.

Something rigid that holds fast or binds things together; a piece of wood or metal, used to hold two or more pieces together.

To talk fast and noisily; to rattle with the tongue.

To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast; to cling.