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Fasten
F'ASTEN, v.t. f'asn.
1. To fix firmly; to make fast or close; as, to fasten a chain to the feet, or to fasten the feet with fetters.
2. To lock, bolt or bar; to secure; as, to fasten a door or window.
3. To hold together; to cement or to link; to unite closely in any manner and by any means, as by cement, hooks, pins, nails, cords, etc.
4. To affix or conjoin.
The words Whig and Tory have been pressed to the service of many successions of parties, with different ideas fastened to them. [Not common.]
5. To fix; to impress.
Thinking, by this face,
To fasten in our thoughts that they have courage.
6. To lay on with strength.
Could he fasten a blow, or make a thrust, when not suffered to approach?
F'ASTEN, v.i. To fasten on, is to fix one's self; to seize and hold on; to clinch.
The leech will hardly fasten on a fish.
fasten appears in definitions for these words:
Adjoin Affix Air-jacket Anchor Angel-shot Angle-rod Apluster Armor Attach Back Ball Band Bar Barred Beak Beard Belace Belay Belly-band Belock Bend Bending Bezel Bind Binding Bit Bitts Boat-rope Bolt Bolting Boom Bow Bowline Brail Breakwater Breastrope Bridge Britch Britching Broach Bronz Brooch Buckle Buntlines Buoy Buoyrope Burglary Burr Button Cabled Capreolate Casket Castanet Cat Chain Chaining Clamp Clamping Clasp Clasped Clasping Cleat Clew-carnets Clinch Clincher Clog Closure Clout Confix Confixed Confixing Confixure Connect Connection Copper-fastened Cord Corded Counterpoise Couple Coupling Cradle Cramp Cramp-iron Creance Cringle Cross-piece Crucifix Crucifixion Crucify Culvertailed Defix Depend Discomfit Dog Dogvane Double-lock Dove-tail Earing Earthbound Edder Embar Enchain Enchained Epicycle Espalier Existent Eye Fast Fasten Fettering Fiddle-string File Fix Fizgig Float Fluidness Foal Furl Furled Furling Gallows Gammon Garboard Gasket Girder Grapnel Gripe Grommet Guard Hand Hang Hanging Hank Harping Hasp Headfast Herse Hitch Hitched Hook Hooked Hooking Hoop Hooping Housed Hussar Hux Imbead Imbeaded Infix Inlay Interchaining Joined Keelhaul Keelson Key Keystone Knit Knocker Knopped Lace Laced Lacing Langrage Laniard Lash Latch Latchet Leech-line Lock Locket Log-book Loop Loose Lute Main-sheet Manacle Marl Martinet Martingal Mop Mouse Muscle Muzzle Nail Nailed Nailing Netting Norman Open Opener Outlicker Padlock Painter Panch Parrel Paste Patch Pedometer Peg Pegger Pendent Pendulosity Picket Pike Pin Pinion Pinned Pinner Plummet Powder-chest Puddening Pump Pump-spear Putty Raft Reduce Rein Ribin Rivet Riveting Root Rother-nails Sack Sacking Sandal Scarf Scissors Scoop Screw Screwed Screwing Seal Sealed Sealing Sealing-wax Seize Seized Seizing Sew Shank-painter Sheephook Sheers Sheet Shoe Shoebuckle Shoestring Shoetye Shut Skewer Skid Slat Snarl Span Spar Spike Spiked Spiking Springe Stake Staked Stare Staylace Stick Stirrup Strap String Subnect Swingling-tow Tack Tag Tail Take Tasses Tenon Thong Tile Together Touch Trash Tree-nail Two-valved Tye Tyed Tying Umbrel Unbolted Unbutton Unclasp Unfix Unlace Unlacing Untie Untied Viper Wedge Wedged Wedging Whip-stock Whipple-tree Winged Wring-bolt
Adjoin Affix Air-jacket Anchor Angel-shot Angle-rod Apluster Armor Attach Back Ball Band Bar Barred Beak Beard Belace Belay Belly-band Belock Bend Bending Bezel Bind Binding Bit Bitts Boat-rope Bolt Bolting Boom Bow Bowline Brail Breakwater Breastrope Bridge Britch Britching Broach Bronz Brooch Buckle Buntlines Buoy Buoyrope Burglary Burr Button Cabled Capreolate Casket Castanet Cat Chain Chaining Clamp Clamping Clasp Clasped Clasping Cleat Clew-carnets Clinch Clincher Clog Closure Clout Confix Confixed Confixing Confixure Connect Connection Copper-fastened Cord Corded Counterpoise Couple Coupling Cradle Cramp Cramp-iron Creance Cringle Cross-piece Crucifix Crucifixion Crucify Culvertailed Defix Depend Discomfit Dog Dogvane Double-lock Dove-tail Earing Earthbound Edder Embar Enchain Enchained Epicycle Espalier Existent Eye Fast Fasten Fettering Fiddle-string File Fix Fizgig Float Fluidness Foal Furl Furled Furling Gallows Gammon Garboard Gasket Girder Grapnel Gripe Grommet Guard Hand Hang Hanging Hank Harping Hasp Headfast Herse Hitch Hitched Hook Hooked Hooking Hoop Hooping Housed Hussar Hux Imbead Imbeaded Infix Inlay Interchaining Joined Keelhaul Keelson Key Keystone Knit Knocker Knopped Lace Laced Lacing Langrage Laniard Lash Latch Latchet Leech-line Lock Locket Log-book Loop Loose Lute Main-sheet Manacle Marl Martinet Martingal Mop Mouse Muscle Muzzle Nail Nailed Nailing Netting Norman Open Opener Outlicker Padlock Painter Panch Parrel Paste Patch Pedometer Peg Pegger Pendent Pendulosity Picket Pike Pin Pinion Pinned Pinner Plummet Powder-chest Puddening Pump Pump-spear Putty Raft Reduce Rein Ribin Rivet Riveting Root Rother-nails Sack Sacking Sandal Scarf Scissors Scoop Screw Screwed Screwing Seal Sealed Sealing Sealing-wax Seize Seized Seizing Sew Shank-painter Sheephook Sheers Sheet Shoe Shoebuckle Shoestring Shoetye Shut Skewer Skid Slat Snarl Span Spar Spike Spiked Spiking Springe Stake Staked Stare Staylace Stick Stirrup Strap String Subnect Swingling-tow Tack Tag Tail Take Tasses Tenon Thong Tile Together Touch Trash Tree-nail Two-valved Tye Tyed Tying Umbrel Unbolted Unbutton Unclasp Unfix Unlace Unlacing Untie Untied Viper Wedge Wedged Wedging Whip-stock Whipple-tree Winged Wring-bolt
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