fastgangtidet

[E. dial.fasguntide.] Shrove tide. fast-handed (fast'han" ded), a. [ fisted; avaricious. [Rare.] The king, being fast - handed and loth to part with a second dowry, prevailed with the prince to be contracted with the Prince Catherine. Bacon , Hen. VII. IMG:content-1120.png:[ocr errors] fasti (fas'ti), n. pl. [L., prop. pl. of fast us, adj., nales, or historic i, contained the names of the consuls and other magistrates, and an enumeration of the most remarkable historical events noted down opposite the days on which they occurred. Roman coins are not Fasti , nor are Greek coins a treatise on ancient geography, yet the labour of numismatists has made the one almost the best authority for the chronology of the Roman empire, and has found in the other an inestimable commentary on Strabo and Ptolemy. C. T. Newton, Art and Archæol., p. 15. Hence-2. Annals, chronicles, or historical records in general. fastidiosity (fas-tid-i-os'i-ti), n. [ fastidi ous (L. fastidiosus ) + -ity.] Fastidiousne . [Rare.] His epidemical diseases being fastidiosity , amorphy, and oscitation. Swift , Tale of a Tub, v.