Fastening () Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.

Faster () One who abstains from food.

Fast-handed () Close-handed; close-fisted; covetous; avaricious.

Fasti () The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.

Fasti () Records or registers of important events.

Fastidiosity () Fastidiousness; squeamishness.

Fastidious () Difficult to please; delicate to a fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite.

Fastigiate () Alt. of Fastigiated

Fastigiated () Narrowing towards the top.

Fastigiated () Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.

Fastigiated () United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.

Fastish () Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.

Fastly () Firmly; surely.

Fastness () The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.

Fastness () A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.

Fastness () Conciseness of style.

Fastness () The state of being fast or swift.

Fastuous () Proud; haughty; disdainful.

Fat () A large tub, cistern, or vessel; a vat.

Fat () A measure of quantity, differing for different commodities.

Fat () Abounding with fat

Fat () Fleshy; characterized by fatness; plump; corpulent; not lean; as, a fat man; a fat ox.

Fat () Oily; greasy; unctuous; rich; -- said of food.

Fat () Exhibiting the qualities of a fat animal; coarse; heavy; gross; dull; stupid.

Fat () Fertile; productive; as, a fat soil; a fat pasture.

Fat () Rich; producing a large income; desirable; as, a fat benefice; a fat office; a fat job.

Fat () Abounding in riches; affluent; fortunate.

Fat () Of a character which enables the compositor to make large wages; -- said of matter containing blank, cuts, or many leads, etc.; as, a fat take; a fat page.

Fat () An oily liquid or greasy substance making up the main bulk of the adipose tissue of animals, and widely distributed in the seeds of plants. See Adipose tissue, under Adipose.

Fat () The best or richest productions; the best part; as, to live on the fat of the land.

Fat () Work. containing much blank, or its equivalent, and, therefore, profitable to the compositor.

Fatted () of Fat

Fat () To make fat; to fatten; to make plump and fleshy with abundant food; as, to fat fowls or sheep.

Fat () To grow fat, plump, and fleshy.

Fatal () Proceeding from, or appointed by, fate or destiny; necessary; inevitable.

Fatal () Foreboding death or great disaster.

Fatal () Causing death or destruction; deadly; mortal; destructive; calamitous; as, a fatal wound; a fatal disease; a fatal day; a fatal error.

Fatalism () The doctrine that all things are subject to fate, or that they take place by inevitable necessity.

Fatalist () One who maintains that all things happen by inevitable necessity.

Fatalistic () Implying, or partaking of the nature of, fatalism.

Fatalities () of Fatality

Fatality () The state of being fatal, or proceeding from destiny; invincible necessity, superior to, and independent of, free and rational control.

Fatality () The state of being fatal; tendency to destruction or danger, as if by decree of fate; mortaility.

Fatality () That which is decreed by fate or which is fatal; a fatal event.

Fatally () In a manner proceeding from, or determined by, fate.

Fatally () In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded.

Fatalness () Quality of being fatal.

Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily.

Fatback () The menhaden.

Fat-brained () Dull of apprehension.

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