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Definition of Fastens
1. fasten [v] - See also: fasten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fastens
Literary usage of Fastens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... fastens attention upon this aspect of his work (Matt, xx, 28, xxvi, 28); and
it is embedded in every important type of New Testament teaching, ..."
2. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"The third presses the good wine ; he fastens up his casks like a good husbandman.
* ... He scatters the seed on the land * ... and winter draws nigh as at ..."
3. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1884)
"It collects the sand-heaps at the tops of ridges, while the Elymus fastens their
sides. Psidium acidum, Martius. Higher regions on the Amazon-River. ..."
4. The Natural History of Insects by James Rennie, John Obadiah Westwood (1829)
"Caterpillar when about to change into a Chrysalis fastens itself to a Leaf or
Stem—Spins a little Web—Gets rid of its old Cage—Suspends itself by a Girth or ..."
5. Letters from Abroad to Kindred at Home by Catharine Maria Sedgwick (1841)
"... where a certain friend of ours fastens her outer-door with a carving-knife,
leaving all her plate unlocked in a pantry hard by, and only puts in a ..."
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