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Fash"ion-mon`ger*ing, a. Behaving
like a fashion-monger. [R.] Shak.

Fas"sa*ite (?), n. (Min.) A
variety of pyroxene, from the valley of Fassa, in the
Tyrol.

Fast (?), v. i. [imp. & p.
p. Fasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fasting.] [AS. fæstan; akin to D.
vasten, OHG. fastēn, G. fasten, Icel. &
Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth. fastan to keep,
observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.] 1.
To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in
part; to go hungry.

Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting
waked.

2. 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.

Thou didst fast and weep for the
child.


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