Index of English words, starting with "fa"

(1) - Fashion (v. t.) To forge or counterfeit.
(2) - Fashion (v. t.) To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.
(3) - Fashion (v. t.) To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; -- with to.
(4) - Fashion (v. t.) To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.
(5) - Fashion (n.) Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.
(6) - Fashion (n.) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.
(7) - Fashion (n.) The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.
(8) - Fashion (n.) The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.

(1) - Fashionable (n.) A person who conforms to the fashions; -- used chiefly in the plural.
(2) - Fashionable (a.) Genteel; well-bred; as, fashionable society.
(3) - Fashionable (a.) Observant of the fashion or customary mode; dressing or behaving according to the prevailing fashion; as, a fashionable man.
(4) - Fashionable (a.) Established or favored by custom or use; current; prevailing at a particular time; as, the fashionable philosophy; fashionable opinions.
(5) - Fashionable (a.) Conforming to the fashion or established mode; according with the prevailing form or style; as, a fashionable dress.

(1) - Fast (v.) Tenacious; retentive.
(2) - Fast (v. i.) To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
(3) - Fast (v. i.) Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
(4) - Fast (v. i.) Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
(5) - Fast (v. i.) A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
(6) - Fast (v.) Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
(7) - Fast (v.) Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
(8) - Fast (v. i.) To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
(9) - Fast (v.) Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
(10) - Fast (n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
(11) - Fast (v.) Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
(12) - Fast (v.) Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
(13) - Fast (v.) Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
(14) - Fast (a.) In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
(15) - Fast (a.) In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
(16) - Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
(17) - Fast (v.) Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.

(1) - Fasten (v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.
(2) - Fasten (a.) To cause to take close effect; to make to tell; to lay on; as, to fasten a blow.
(3) - Fasten (a.) To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to something , or to cleave together, by any means; as, to fasten boards together with nails or cords; to fasten anything in our thoughts.
(4) - Fasten (a.) To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window.

(1) - Fastener (n.) One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.