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1. (v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.

2. (v. i.) 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.

3. (v. i.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.

4. (v. i.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.

5. (n.) 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.

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

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

8. (v.) Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.

9. (v.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.

10. (v.) Tenacious; retentive.

11. (v.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.

12. (v.) Moving rapidly; quick in motion; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.

13. (v.) Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.

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

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

16. (n.) 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. (n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.

Thesaurus
Barmecidal feast Encratism Friday Lenten diet Lenten entertainment Lenten fare Pythagoreanism Pythagorism Rechabitism Sabbath Shakerism Spartan fare Stoicism Sunday abandoned abstain abstainment abstemiousness abstention abstinence accelerated active agile aground airtight alert amain anchored apace ardent asceticism at flank speed attached avoidance balanced banyan day bare subsistence bonded bound bread and water breakneck brief brisk briskly calculable caught celibacy cemented chained chastity chronic church calendar close close to closely colorfast committed compact confirmed connected constant continence cool dashing debauched dedicated deep-dyed deep-fixed deep-rooted deep-seated deep-set deep-settled dependable devoted diet dissipated dissolute dissolutely double-dyed double-quick dustproof dusttight dyed-in-the-wool eagle-winged eat sparingly ecclesiastical calendar eschewal established expeditious expeditiously express extravagant extravagantly fadeless faithful faithworthy fastened fasting feast fecklessly fiducial firm firm as Gibraltar firmly fish day fixed fixedly flat-out fleet flying free fruitarianism full tilt gallant galloping gasproof gastight gay glued go hungry grounded gymnosophy hair-trigger hand over fist hand over hand hastily hasty headlong held hell for leather hell-bent hell-bent for election hermetic hermetically sealed high and dry high-speed holy day holytide hurried hurriedly hustling immediately immoral immovable immovably impacted imperturbable implanted in a flash in a twinkling in a wink in double time in double-quick time in equilibrium in high in high gear in nothing flat in seven-league boots in short order incorrigible inculcated indecorous indecorously indelible inextricable infixed ingrain ingrained inseparably instilled intemperate intemperately inveterate invincible irresponsible irreversible jammed keen lack of food lasting lecherous lecherously licentious licentiously lickety-cut lickety-split liege light of heel light-footed lightproof lighttight like a flash like a shot like wildfire lively long-established loose loosely loyal lustful lustfully meager diet mercurial moored near nephalism nimble nimble-footed not eat of easy virtue oilproof oiltight on the double packed permanent plain living post posthaste precipitate predictable presto profligate promiscuous promiscuously prompt promptly pronto quick quick as lightning quick as thought quickly rainproof raintight rakehell rakehellish rakehelly raking rakish rapid rapidly reckless recklessly refraining refrainment reliable resolute right rooted running sealed secure secured securely self-denial
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

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