fastness1 (fastnes)

[ The blue produced is of a greenish shade, and po e es great fastne . Benedikt, Coal-tar Colours (trans.), p. 134. 2. Strength; security. And eke the fastne e of his dwelling place. Spenser, F. Q., V. ix. 5. 3. A stronghold; a fortre or fort; a fortified place; a castle. Not far off should be Roderigo's quarter; For in his fastne , if I be not cozen'd, He and his outlaws live. Fletcher, Pilgrim. Venice cooped up within her sea-girt fastne es , and compelled to enroll her artisans and common laborers in Pre scott, Ferd. and Isa., ii. 22. her defence. 4t. Closene or concisene , as of style. Bring his stile from all loose gro ne to such firm fast- ne in Latin, as in Demosthenes. Ascham, The Scholemaster. fastne 2 (fast'nes), n. [ fast2 + -ne .] The state or quality of being fast, in any sense. Another change manifest to me during my London life is the increased fastne of living incident to all cla es and occupations of men. The loiterers in life are fewer. Sir H. Holland , Recollections, p. 268. to bring 2. In the law and customs of ancient commu- nities, particularly in Ireland, a method for the collection of debts, by which the creditor went to the door of the debtor, and there sat down to stay without food until paid: a person who would not yield to this form of demand was treated thereafter in some sense as an outlaw. =Syn. Speed , Swiftne , etc. See quickne . fasting-day (fas'ting-da), n. Aday of complete abstinence from food; a day of fasting; a fast- day. The evil of Selina's nature made her wish her sister to her own color by putting an appearance of "fastne " upon her. H. James, Jr., A London Life. To werke we zeden As wel fastingdaies as Frydaies. Piers Plowman (C), vii. 182. Here are ayries of hawkes, and birds which never fly but over the sea; and, therefore, are used to be eaten on fasting-days. Quoted in O'Curry's Anc. Irish, II. xxii. fastningt, n. Same as fastening . fast-shot (fast's hot), n. In mining , a blast which has had no effect on the rock; a mi -shot. fastuosityt (fas-tu-os'i-ti), n. [= Sp. fastuosi- dad , fastuosus , fastuous: see fastuous and -ity.] The quality of being fastuous; haught i- ne ; ostentation. That new modle of ethicks, which hath been obtruded upon the world with so much fastuosity. fasting-gangt, n. [ME. fastyngonge ; cf. fast- gang.] Shrove-tide; the beginning of Lent. Ye threde [meeting] schal be ye souneday next after Fastyngonge. English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 69. fastinglyt (fas'ting-li), adv . With fasting. At leng the bespeakes the citte mouse: my frende why lyke ous.] Proud; haughty. you still, Dr. H. More, Antidote against Atheism. fastuoust (fas'tū-us), a . [= F. fastueux = Sp. fastuoso , fastoso = Pg. It. fastoso , fas tuosus , collateral form of L. fastosus , full of pride, fast us , pride, haughtine : see fastidi To lyue in countrye fastynglye , vpon a craggie hill? Drant, tr. of Horace's Satires, ii. 6. fasting-mant (fas'ting-man), n. [Repr. AS. This is no fastuous or pompous title; the word is of no dignity. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), II. 185. The higher ranks will become fastuous , supercilious, and domineering. Barrow , The Pope's Supremacy. * fasting -mann, only in pl. fæsting - men, cited fastuously (fas'tu-us-li), ade. In a fastuous in L. documents of the AS. period; lit. a man As given into charge or keeping, fæsting , a giving or intrusting to the charge of of another, fæstan , make fast, be - fæstan , make fast, es- tablish, give in charge, harge, intrust (see fastl , v . t .), + mann , man.] In Anglo - Saxon law , a person, as a servant of the king, who could be quartered upon a monastery or other estate, which was obliged to entertain him, in the course of the king's king's journeying. Also faster man . fasting's-even (fas'tingz-ē"vn), n. fastens . Same as