v tenacious; retentive.
2. fast ·noun the shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
3. fast ·v not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
4. fast ·vi abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
5. fast ·v moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
6. fast ·v firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
7. fast ·adj in a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
8. fast ·vi to abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
9. fast ·v firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
10. fast ·adj in a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
11. fast ·v permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
12. fast ·v firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
13. fast ·vi voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
14. fast ·v given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
15. 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.