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-- Hard and fast (Naut.),
so completely aground as to be immovable. -- To make
fast (Naut.), to make secure; to fasten firmly,
as a vessel, a rope, or a door.

Fast (?), adv. [OE. faste
firmly, strongly, quickly, AS. fæste. See Fast,
a.] 1. In a fast, fixed, or
firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.

We will bind thee fast.

Judg.
xv. 13.

2. In a fast or rapid manner; quickly;
swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live
fast.

Fast by, or Fast beside,
close or near to; near at hand.

He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk

Into the wood fast by.

Milton.

Fast by the throne obsequious Fame
resides.

Pope.

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.

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