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A Middle English form of fast3. fasten-een (fas'ten-en), n. Same as fastens. [North. Eng. and Scotch.] On Fasten - e'en we had a rock in' To ca' the crack [chat] and weave our stock in'! And there was muckle fun and jokin', Ye need na doubt. Burns, First Epistle to John Lapraik. 1. One who or that fastener (fås'nèr), n. which makes fast or firm; one who fastens; specifically, something used for fastening and unfastening, as in dre , or for making fast or fixed, as a mordant in dyeing. His dinner is his other work, for he sweats at it as at his labour; he is a terrible fastner on a piece of beef. Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Country Fellow. The modified Galipoli oil acts therefore as fas tener of the red lake. W. Crookes, Dyeing and Calico-printing, p. 323. 2. A warrant. Grose; Hall i well. [Prov. Eng.] fastening (fas'ning), n. [ And Enid, at his side all pale Dismounting, loosed the fastenings of his arms. Tennyson, Geraint. 21. Fixedne ; firmne . The congruent, and harmonious fitting of parts in a sentence, hath almost the fastning , and force of knitting, and connexion: as in stones well squared, which will rise strong a great way without mortar. B. Jonson, Discoveries.