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Shamefast :: Shamefast (a.) Modest; shamefaced.

Rope :: Rope (v. t.) To connect or fasten together, as a party of mountain climbers, with a rope..

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To make fast; to stopper.

Tie :: Tie (v. t.) To unite firmly; to fasten; to hold.

Frog :: Frog (v. t.) To ornament or fasten (a coat, etc.) with trogs. See Frog, n., 4..

Octaemeron :: Octaemeron (n.) A fast of eight days before a great festival.

Gib :: Gib (v. t.) To secure or fasten with a gib, or gibs; to provide with a gib, or gibs..

Ephod :: Ephod (n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front..

Fasten :: Fasten (v. i.) To fix one's self; to take firm hold; to clinch; to cling.

Fast :: 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..

Bitts :: Bitts (n. pl.) A frame of two strong timbers fixed perpendicularly in the fore part of a ship, on which to fasten the cables as the ship rides at anchor, or in warping. Other bitts are used for belaying (belaying bitts), for sustaining the windlass (carrick bitts, winch bitts, or windlass bitts), to hold the pawls of the windlass (pawl bitts) etc..

Collation :: Collation (v. t.) A light repast or luncheon; as, a cold collation; -- first applied to the refreshment on fast days that accompanied the reading of the collation in monasteries..

Unbutton :: Unbutton (v. t.) To loose the buttons of; to unfasten.

Jumper :: "Jumper (n.) spring to impel the star wheel, also a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece..

Turn-buckle :: Turn-buckle (n.) A gravitating catch, as for fastening a shutter, the end of a chain, or a hasp..

Nice :: Nice (superl.) Overscrupulous or exacting; hard to please or satisfy; fastidious in small matters.

Bridle :: Bridle (n.) A span of rope, line, or chain made fast as both ends, so that another rope, line, or chain may be attached to its middle..

Hitch :: Hitch (n.) A knot or noose in a rope which can be readily undone; -- intended for a temporary fastening; as, a half hitch; a clove hitch; a timber hitch, etc..

Cable :: Cable (v. t.) To fasten with a cable.

Chape :: Chape (n.) The piece by which an object is attached to something, as the frog of a scabbard or the metal loop at the back of a buckle by which it is fastened to a strap..

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