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Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious. [Obs.] Bacon.

The fist. [Obs.] Chaucer.

on; to shakle or confine the feet of with a chain; to bind. My heels are fettered, but my fist is free. Milton.

nt had to the lands or other immovable thing of his lord, to use the same and take the profists thereof hereditarily, rendering to his superior such duties and services as belong to military tenure, etc., the property of the soil always remaining in the lord or superior; a fief; a fee.

A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc. [Southern U.S.]

novice; one in the rudiments of knowledge; especially, a student during his fist year in a college or university. He drank his glass and cracked his joke, And freshmen wondered as he spoke. Goldsmith. Freshman class, the lowest of the four classes in an American college. [ U. S.]

mplete or reduced branchial apparatus. It includes the sticklebacks, the flutemouths, and Fistularia.

Hard; callous. "His horny fist." Dryden.

ng, a sign [*] used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist.

A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.

Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.

To beat with the fists. [Cant] Thackeray.

part chopped off. -- Mutton fish (Zoöl.), the American eelpout. See Eelpout. -- Mutton fist, a big brawny fist or hand. [Colloq.] Dryden. -- Mutton monger, a pimp [Low & Obs.] Chapman. -- To return to one's muttons. Etym: [A translation of a phrase from a farce by De Brueys, revenons à nos moutons let us return to…

Close-fisted; parsimonious. [Obs. or Low, Eng.]

See Neif, the fist.

To beat or bruise with the fist. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Any fish of the genus Fistularia; -- called also tobacco pipefish. See Fistularia.

rt; to plant a standard in any place; to plant one's feet on solid ground; to plant one's fist in another's face.

undly, as with the pommel of a sword, or with something knoblike; hence, to beat with the fists. [Written also pummel.]

(1630). -- Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a sweetish pulp. See Cassia. -- Pudding sleeve, a full sleeve like that of the English clerical gown. Swift. -- Pudding stone. (Min.) See Conglomerate, n., 2. -- Pudding time. (a) T…