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esteem; to undervalue. Addison. Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself. Burke.

An old game or sport (revived under this name) consisting in whirling on a string, fastened to two sticks, a small somewhat spool- shaped object (called the diabolo) so as to balance it on a string, toss it in the air and catch it, etc.

nce to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed. To fast like one that takes diet. Shak. Diet kitchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

To eat the principal regular meal of the day; to take dinner. Now can I break my fast, dine, sup, and sleep. Shak. To dine with Duke Humphrey, to go without dinner; -- a phrase common in Elizabethan literature, said to be from the practice of the poor gentry, who beguiled the dinner hour by a promenade near the tomb of…

To go ashore out of a ship or boat; to leave a ship; to debark. And, making fast their moorings, disembarked. Cowper.

An undress; a loose, negligent dress; deshabille. They breakfast in dishabille. Smollett.

To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble. Some dodging casuist with more craft than sincerity. Milton.

One who dodges or evades; one who plays fast and loose, or uses tricky devices. Smart.

A grappling iron, with a claw or claws, for fastening into wood or other heavy articles, for the purpose of raising or moving them.

A spar or buoy held by an anchor and furnished with a ring to which ships may fasten their cables. R. H. Dana.

ay into a house or apartment is closed and opened. At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. Spenser.

To lock with two bolts; to fasten with double security. Tatler.

Of, or performed in, the fastest time or step in marching, next to the run; as, a double-quick step or march.

A kind of coasting sled, made of two sleds fastened together with a board, one before the other. [Local, U. S.]

To fasten together by dowels; to furnish with dowels; as, a cooper dowels pieces for the head of a cask.

A piece of canvas fastened by lacing to the bonnet of a sail, to give it a greater depth, or more drop.

og or hindrance; to hold back. A propeller is said to drag when the sails urge the vessel faster than the revolutions of the screw can propel her. Russell.

To drain by emptying; to suck dry. Sucking and drawing the breast dischargeth the milk as fast as it can generated. Wiseman.

To let fall in drops. Which from the thatch drips fast a shower of rain. Swift.

ls. Dryden. Under cover of the night and a driving tempest. Prescott. Time driveth onward fast, And in a little while our lips are dumb. Tennyson.