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A long screw formerly used to fasten a bedpost to one of the adjacent side pieces.

To fasten, as with a lace or cord. [Obs.]

To make fast, as a rope, by taking several turns with it round a pin, cleat, or kevel. Totten.

ng pin in the side of a vessel, or by the mast, round which ropes are wound when they are fastened or belayed.

To lock, or fasten as with a lock. [Obs.] Shak.

To fasten, as one rope to another, or as a sail to its yard or stay; or as a cable to the ring of an anchor. Totten. To bend the brow, to knit the brow, as in deep thought or in anger; to scowl; to frown. Camden.

An early form of Better. [Obs.] To go bet, to go fast; to hurry. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In a short time; soon; speedily; forth with. He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes. Shak.

A double slip of leather by which bells are fastened to a hawk's legs.

The rim which encompasses and fastens a jewel or other object, as the crystal of a watch, in the cavity in which it is set.

To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner.

, which is inserted in the mouth of a horse, and having appendages to which the reins are fastened. Shak. The foamy bridle with the bit of gold. Chaucer.

To take hold of; to hold fast; to adhere to; as, the anchor bites the ground. The last screw of the rack having been turned so often that its purchase crumbled, . . . it turned and turned with nothing to bite. Dickens. To bite the dust, To bite the ground, to fall in the agonies of death; as, he made his enemy bite the…

To put round the bitts; as, to bitt the cable, in order to fasten it or to slacken it gradually, which is called veering away. Totten.

frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl…

To blow; to blow on a trumpet. [Obs.] Toke his blake trumpe faste And gan to puffen and to blaste. Chaucer.

th intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott.

r yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower. A flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom. Milton.

A kind of pin used by women to fasten the hair. To sit, ride, or travel bodkin, to sit closely wedged between two persons. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

To play fast and loose; to dissemble. Howell.