fashionless 
fashionless (fash'ou-les), a. [< fashion* + 
-Ir.t.t.'] Having no fashion ; not in accordance 
with fashion. Cm'uj. 
fashionlyt (fash'on-li), a. [</*foni + -fyi.] 
Fashionable. 
And thou gallant, that readest and deridest this mart- 
nesse of Fashion, if thine eyes were not dazeled with light- 
nrssr . . . MI ' sulfe-reliected Vauitie, mightest see as Mon- 
ster-like fashions at home, and a mure fashionly monster 
of thy selfe. J'urchan, Pilgrimage, p. 784. 
fashion-monger (fMh'gn-mung'gto), n. One 
who leads the fashion, or affects great gentility. 
Swearing they hold an excellent qualitie, and to be a 
fashion-inomjt'r in oathes, glorious. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 342. 
fashion-mongering (fash'on-mung"ger-ing), n. 
Setting or following the fashion ; foppish. 
fashion-monging(fash'on-mung"ging), a. [For 
fashion-mongering.'] Same as fashion-monger- 
ing. 
Scambling, out-facing, fashion-monffinff boys, 
That lie, and eog, and flout, deprave, and slander. 
Skak., Much Ado, v. 1. 
fashion-piece (f ash'on-pes), n. Same &s fashion- 
timber. 
fashion-plate (fash'on-plat), . An engraving 
exhibiting current fashions in dress. 
fashion-timber (fash'on-tim"ber), n. One of 
the timbers on the outside of the stern of a 
wooden ship forming the ends of the ellipse or 
parallelogram just above the transom. Also 
fashion-piece. 
fashions (fash 'us), a. [< OF. fascheux, F. 
fdclieiix, troublesome, < fascher, trouble, fash, 
ult. < L. fastidiosus : seefashl and/astdois.] 
Troublesome; vexatious. [Scotch.] 
Favour wi' wooing was fashions to seek. 
The Laird o' Cockpen. 
It's a fashions affair when you're out on a ride . . . 
And you come to a place where three crossroads divide. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, II. 294. 
fashiousness (fash'us-nes), n. Troublesome- 
ness; vexatiousness. [Scotch.] 
fasilH, v. and n. Same stsfasel 1 . 
fasil 2 (fas'il), v. i. [E. dial. ; perhaps connected 
with fasel, ravel out (cf. feeze*, dawdle, with 
feeze&, ravel out) : see fasel 1 , feeze.~\ To daw- 
dle. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
faskidar (fas'ki-dar), re. A Scotch name of one 
of the skua-gulls or jaegers. 
fasont, n. A Middle English form of fashion^. 
Chaucer. 
fasst, n. [< ME. "fas (not found), < AS. fas, a 
fringe, = OHG. faso, m., fase, f., MHG. vase, 
G. fase, MHG. also vaser, G. faser (cf. E. fasefi 
= D. vezel), a thread, fiber, filament. Cf. fass- 
ings and fusel 1 . Cf. /osft 3 .] A fringe ; in the 
plural, tassels, hangings. Hall. (Halliwell.) 
fassaite, fassite (fas'a-it, fas'it), n. [< Fossa 
(see del.) + -ite 2 .] A dark-green variety of 
pyroxene, found in the valley of Fassa in Tyrol. 
fassings (fas'ingz), n. pi. [E. dial. ; < fass + 
-i</l.j Any hanging fibers or roots of plants, 
etc. Halliwell. [Prov. Eng.] 
fassite, n. See fassaite. 
fast 1 (fast), a. and n. [Also dial. /erf; < ME. 
fast, fest, fast, < AS. fcest, fixed, firm, stiff, solid, 
constant, fortified, = OS. fast = OFries. fest = 
D. vast = MLG. LG. fast, fest = OHO. fasti, 
festi, feste, MHG. veste, vest, Gr.fest = Icel.fastr 
= Sw. Dan. fast = Goth, "fasts (not found), 
fixed, firm, strong: see/osi 2 and/as< 3 . Incomp. 
earth-fast, stead-fast, sooth-fast, etc., shame-fast 
(corruptly shame-faced), etc.] I. a. 1. Firmly 
fixed in place; immovable. 
For never wight so fast in sell could sit, 
But him perforce unto the ground it bore. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. iii. 60. 
2. Strong against attack ; fortified. 
Wei he makede his castles treowe and swidhe vceste. 
Layamon, ii. 71. 
Robbers and outlaws . . . lurking in woods and fast 
places. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
3. Fixed in such a way as to prevent detach- 
ment, separation, removal, or escape; tight; 
secure ; close ; not loose nor easily detachable : 
as, take a/as<hold; make fast the door; make 
fast a rope. Used elliptically in whaling, in exclama- 
tion, to indicate that the harpoon has pierced the whale, 
and that the boat is thus fast to it. 
Neither the sum that containeshim, nor the particulari- 
ties descending from him, giue any/rex* handle to their 
carping disprayse. Sir P. Sidney, Apol. for Poetrie. 
Tis true, they have us fast, we cannot scape 'em. 
Fletcher, Humorous Lieutenant, iii. 0. 
Be sure to find, 
What I foretold thee, many a hard assay . . . 
Ere thou of Israel's sceptre get fast hold. 
Milton, P. R., iv. 480. 
2149 
One end of the line was made/rt( to a telegraph post. 
R. L. Stevenson, Popular Authors. 
4. Firm in adherence ; steadfast ; faithful. 
You shall flnde me as fast a Frend to you and yours as 
perchance any you haue. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 20. 
In heart they are neither fast to God nor man. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 343. 
5. Tenacious; not fugitive ; durable ; lasting; 
permanent in tint : as, fast colors ; fast to mill- 
ing or to washing (said of colors, or of mate- 
rials which will not change color under those 
operations). 
Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells. 
Bacon, Gardens. 
A material is called fast to washing if it will stand boil- 
ing with a neutral or slightly alkaline soap without chang- 
ing or losing any appreciable quantity of its colour. 
Benedikt, Coal-tar Colours (trans.), p. 54. 
6f. Close, as sleep; deep; sound. 
I have seen her . . . take forth paper, fold it, write 
upon 't, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return to 
bed ; yet all this while in a most fast sleep. 
Shale., Macbeth, v. 1. 
7. In use ; not to be had. Halliwell. [Prov. 
Eng. ] Fast and loose, (a) A cheating game practised 
at fairs by gipsies and sharpers, now called prick the gar- 
ter, or pnck at the loop. A belt or strap having been dou- 
bled and rolled up, with the double or loop in the center, 
is laid on its edge on a board or table ; the dupe is then in- 
duced to bet that he can catch the double or loop with a 
skewer while the belt or strap is unrolled, but the sharp- 
er draws it out in such a way as to make this impossible. 
Hence, to play fast and loose is to say one thing and do 
another ; be slippery, inconstant, or unreliable. 
Like a right gipsy, hath, at fast and loose, 
Beguil'd me to the very heart of loss. 
Shak., A. and C., iv. 10. 
But, if you use these knick-knacks, 
this fast and loose, with faithful men and honest, 
You'll be the first will find it. 
Fletcher, Loyal Subject, ii. 1. 
(6) The game of prison-bars or prisoner's-base. [Prov. Eng. ] 
Fast-and-loose pulleys, two pulleys of the same diam- 
eter placed side by side on a shaft, the one rigidly fixed to 
the shaft, the other loose. The shaft is driven from a main 
shaft by a band passed over the fixed pulley, and when the 
pulley-shaft is to be stopped the band is shifted to the 
loose pulley. Fast blue, brown, red, etc. See the 
nouns. Fast boat, in moling, a boat attached by its 
whale-line to a harpoon embedded in a whale : opposed 
to loose boat. fast colors. See color. Fast fish, in 
whaling, a whale made fast to a boat by the tow-line. 
Also fast whale. See fast boat. Fust yellow. Same 
as acid-ytlloiv. Hard and fast. See hard. To make 
fast, (a) To fasten : as, to make fast the door or the shut- 
ter. (6) Naut., to belay: as, to make fast a rope. To 
play fast and loose. See fast and loose, above. 
II. re. [< fast, a. The naut. sense is Scand. : 
ME. fest, < Icel. festr, mod. festi, a rope, cord, 
cable, skut-festr, stern-fast, stafn-festr, stem- 
fast, bjarg-festr, life-line, etc.] 1. That which 
fastens or holds. Specifically (naut.), a rope or chain 
by which a vessel is moored to a wharf, pier, etc. : named 
bow-, head-, quarter-, stern-, or breast-fast, according to 
the part of the vessel to which it is attached. By the 
breast-fast the vessel is secured broadside to the wharf or 
pier. 
2. Immovable shore-ice. 
The/t, as the whalers call the immovable shore-ice, 
could be seen in a nearly unbroken sweep, passing by 
Bushnell's Island, and joining the coast not far from where 
I stood. Kane, Sec. Grinn. Exp., II. 279. 
3. An underlayer; an understratum. Wright. 
[Prov. Eng.] 
fast 1 (fast), adv. [< WE. faste, feste, firmly, im- 
movably, strongly, powerfully ; in reference to 
sleeping, soundly; in reference to place, near, 
close, in adv. phrase/aste by, faste besyde (these 
two uses being Scand. : cf . Icel. sofa fast, be 
fast asleep; leita fast eptir (lit. seek close af- 
ter, 'lait after'), press hard, legja fast at, close 
with one (in a sea-fight), etc. ; cf. hard in a sim- 
ilar use, hard by, hard upon), < AS. fceste, firm- 
ly, immovably (= OS. fasto = OFries. feste, 
festa,fest = D. vast = OHG. fasto, MHG. vaste, 
G. fast, fest, firmly, immovably, strongly, very, 
= Icel. Dan. Sw.fast, fast, hard, etc. : see fasfi, 
adv.),<. AS. fast, fixed, firm: see/as* 1 , a.] 1. 
So as to be fixed or firm ; so as to be firmly fixed 
in its place or in a desired position ; firmly ; 
immovably: as, the door sticks fast. 
Hi leten hem digte a gret schip, and above hit al bicaste 
With bole huden [bull-hides! stronge ynou ynailed therto 
faste. St. Brandan (ed. Wright), p. 5. 
Yet shalt thou have a sign ; and I will fast 
Seal 't on thy faithless Tongue which asked it. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 97. 
The business, the pleasure, or the amusement we left, 
sticks fast to us ; and perhaps engrosses that heart for a 
time, which should then be taken up altogether in spirit- 
ual addresses. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, II. xxi. 
2. In archery, used elliptically for stand fast, 
or some similar injunction, in cautioning a per- 
son against passing between the shooter and 
fast 
the target, and directing him to stand fast, or 
remain where he is. 
He that shot the arrow was not to be sued or molested, 
if he had, immediately before the discharge of the weapon, 
cried out "fast," the signal usually given upon such oc- 
casions. 
Sluice, quoted ill Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, p. 120. 
3f. Strongly; vehemently; greatly; hard. 
The child weped al-way wonderliche/a*^. 
William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 345. 
4. Tenaciously; durably; permanently. 
See here, my child, how fresh the colours look, 
How fast they hold, like colours of a shell. 
Tennyson, Gcraint. 
5f. Eagerly. 
He toke hym to his tent, talket with liymfast ; 
Fraynet at the freike of his fell dedis. 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7915. 
6. Soundly; closely; deeply. 
Sume men slapeth faste , and sume nappeth. 
Old Enr/. Homilies (ed. Morris), II. 201. 
He most comfortably incouraged them to follow their 
worke, many of them being/as( asleepe. 
Quoted in Capt. John Smith's Works, II. 120. 
7. Close; near: as, fast by; fast beside. See 
below. Fast by or fast beside, close or near to ; hard 
by. 
Paste besyde is another yle. Mandeville, Travels, p. 187. 
Gawein caught Gringalet be the bridell, and ledde hym 
to a grove ther/ote by of half a myle. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 513. 
Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides. Pope. 
Balin's horse 
Vf as fast beside an alder. 
Tennyson, Balin and Balan. 
fast 1 ! (fast), v. t. [< ME. fasten, festen, make 
fast, fix, fasten, < AS.ftestan (comp. ye-, be-fa>s- 
tan) (usually in the form fa-stnian : see fasten 1 ), 
fasten (= OS. festian, make fast, = D. vesten, 
surround with a wall, = OHG. fastan, festan, 
MHG. vesten, make fast, = Icel. festa = Sw. 
fdsta = Dan. faiste, make fast, fasten, fix), < 
f(est, fast, fixed: see fas fl, a. The Goth, fas- 
tan means only 'keep, hold, observe,' and is 
appar. identical with fastan, fast, abstain from 
food: see/ast 3 .] 1. To make fast; fix; fasten. 
Thus sail I feste it fast. York Plays, p. 43. 
Thanne rede I that we no lenger stande, 
But ilke man feste on hym a hande, 
And harle hym hense in hye. 
York Plays, p. 348. 
That it were boundyn in clothis and fastid with smale 
lynnen clothis. Wycllf, Ezek. xxx. 21 (Oxf.). 
Specifically 2f. To join in marriage; marry. 
That they schulde/aste hur with no fere, 
But he were prynce or pryncys pere. 
MS. Cantab. Ff. ii. 38, f. 75. (Ilalliwett.) 
He is sori of his lif 
That is/a [fasted] to such a wif. 
Early Eng. Poems (ed. Furnivall), p. 155. 
fast' 2 (fast), adv. [< ME. fastc, swiftly, quick- 
ly, a particular use of the adv. faste, firmly, 
strongly, powerfully, due to Scand. influence : 
cf. Icel. adv. fast (neut. of fastr, a.) in fylgja 
fast, follow fast, eldask fast, age fast, drekka 
fast, drink hard, etc., = ODan. fast, much, 
swiftly, at once, near to, almost, yet, even 
though, = Svr.fast, nearly, almost, though, al- 
though : same as fasfl, adv. See fasfi, adv. 
The E. adj./ast 2 , quick, is from the adv. With 
fast, fixed and fast, quick, cf . G. fix, fast, fixed, 
also fast, quick, nimble, ready, = Dan. fix, 
fixed, colloq. smart, quick, < L. fixus, fixed.] 
Swiftly; rapidly; quickly; with quick motion 
or in rapid succession: as, to run fast; to move 
fast through the water, as a ship ; the work 
goeson/a*(; it rains/asi; the blows fell thick 
and fast. 
Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on 
thought. Sliak., 2 Hen. VI., iii. 1. 
Our loss is trifling ; for many of the rebels fled as fast 
as the glorious dragoons. Walpole, Letters, II. 3. 
But as fast as the experiences increase in number, com- 
plexity, and variety ; and as fast as there develop the 
faculties for grasping the representations of them in all 
their width, and multiplicity, and diversity; so fast does 
thought become less restricted to the established chan- 
nels. H. Spencer, Prin. of Psychol., 492. 
When we reached Travcmiinde it was snowing, fast, and 
a murky chaos beyond the sandy bar concealed the Bal- 
tic. B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 14. 
To live fast, to be prodigal and wasteful ; live so as to 
consume or exhaust the vital powers or resources quickly. 
fast 2 (fast), a. [Not found as adj. in ME. ; < 
fast 2 , adv. The W. ffest, fast, quick, speedy, 
ffestin, of active nature, ffestinio, ffestti, hasten, 
make haste, are of L. origin; cf. L. festinttg, 
fast, quick, speedy, festinare, hasten, etc. : see 
festinate."] 1. Swift; quick in motion ; rapid; 
that moves, advances, or acts with celerity or 
