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or girth which passes over a saddle, or over anything laid on a horse's back, to bind it fast.

Lucy, and her husband before God. Sir T. More. I presume . . . that you had been sure as fast as faith could bind you, man and wife. Brome.

A bit of sponge, cloth, or the like, fastened to a handle, for cleansing the mouth of a sick person, applying medicaments to deep- seated parts, etc.

uspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate. I tried if a pendulum would swing faster, or continue swinging longer, in case of exsuction of the air. Boyle.

The bar of a carriage to which the traces are fastened; the whiffletree.

A fastening or knitting together; the state of being closely jointed; close union. [R.] Coleridge.

The flap or latchet of a shoe fastened with a string or a buckle.

The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).

To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon. [Colloq.]

To join; to fasten; to attach. Bolingbroke.

To pull or draw by the tail. [R.] Hudibras. To tail in or on (Arch.), to fasten by one of the ends into a wall or some other support; as, to tail in a timber.

ial attached to the lower end of a violin or similar instrument, to which the strings are fastened.

o make prisoner; as, to take am army, a city, or a ship; also, to come upon or befall; to fasten on; to attack; to seize; -- said of a disease, misfortune, or the like. This man was taken of the Jews. Acts xxiii. 27. Men in their loose, unguarded hours they take; Not that themselves are wise, but others weak. Pope. The…

Small wings or winged shoes represented as fastened to the ankles, -- chiefly used as an attribute of Mercury.

The part of a sword blade to which the handle is fastened.

A piece of leather fastened upon the bottom of a boot or shoe in repairing or renewing the sole or heel.

s team and till the earth. Piers Plowman. It happened almost every day that coaches stuck fast, until a team of cattle could be procured from some neighboring farm to tug them out of the slough. Macaulay.

Holding fast, or inclined to hold fast; inclined to retain what is in possession; as, men tenacious of their just rights.

ground, a place where tenters are erected. -- Tenter-hook, a sharp, hooked nail used for fastening cloth on a tenter. -- To be on the tenters, or on the tenter-hooks, to be on the stretch; to be in distress, uneasiness, or suspense. Hudibras.

A long rope or chain by which an animal is fastened, as to a stake, so that it can range or feed only within certain limits.