(obsolete) Fast by contract; betrothed by joining hands.
(rare) Strong; steadfast.
noun
(obsolete) A contract, agreement, covenant; specifically betrothal, espousal.
(obsolete) A hold, grasp; custody, power of confining or keeping.
verb
(transitive) To pledge; to bind.
(transitive, Scotland, archaic or historical except Wicca) To betroth by joining hands, in order to allow for cohabitation before the celebration of marriage; to marry provisionally.
hardfist
headfast
headfast
noun
(nautical) A rope at the bows of a ship used to fasten it to a wharf, etc.
holdfast
holdfast
noun
(archaic, medicine) Actinomycosis.
(biology) A root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile algae, stalked crinoids, benthic cnidarians, and sponges, to the substrate.
Something to or by which an object can be securely fastened.
The aspect of a character that experiences destructive temptation.
redshift
redshift
noun
(US politics) The statistical bias towards Republican (or Blue Dog) candidates of US federal elections whose reported results vary considerably from those indicated by voter exit polls.
(physics) A change in the wavelength of light, in which the wavelength is longer than when it was emitted at the source.
sheetfed
sheetfed
adj
(printing, of a press) Into which individual sheets of paper or paperboard are loaded.
softhead
softhead
noun
A fool; a silly or feeble-minded person.
studfish
studfish
noun
Any of several species of small American minnows of the genus Fundulus, such as Fundulus catenatus.
toadfish
toadfish
noun
Any of the ray-finned fishes of family Batrachoididae of benthic ambush predators.
The banded toadfish, of Australia (Torquigener pleurogramma)
The blackspotted toadfish, of the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans (Arothron nigropunctatus)
The common toadfish (or toadfish), of Australia and New Zealand (Tetractenos hamiltoni)
The dark toadfish (Neophrynichthys latus)
The frilled toadfish, of Macquarie Island (Ambophthalmos magnicirrus)
The pale toadfish of New Zealand (Ambophthalmos angustus)
The prickly toadfish, of Australia and New Zealand (Contusus richei)
The red striped toadfish, of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (Dichotomyctere erythrotaenia, syn. Tetraodon erythrotaenia)
The smooth toadfish, of Australia (Tetractenos glaber)