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Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of
their smells.

6. Not easily disturbed or broken; deep;
sound.

All this while in a most fast
sleep.

7. Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid;
swift; as, a fast horse.

8. Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of
restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast
man; a fast liver. Thackeray.

Fast and loose, now cohering, now disjoined;
inconstant, esp. in the phrases to play at fast and loose,
to play fast and loose, to act with giddy or reckless
inconstancy or in a tricky manner; to say one thing and do
another. "Play fast and loose with faith." Shak. -
- Fast and loose pulleys (Mach.), two
pulleys placed side by side on a revolving shaft, which is driven
from another shaft by a band, and arranged to disengage and
reëngage the machinery driven thereby. When the machinery is to
be stopped, the band is transferred from the pulley fixed to the
shaft to the pulley which revolves freely upon it, and vice
versa.


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