These are the meanings of the letters BAFTS when you unscramble them.
- Bast (n.)
A thick mat or hassock. See 2d Bass, 2.
- Bast (n.)
The inner fibrous bark of various plants; esp. of the lime tree; hence, matting, cordage, etc., made therefrom.
- bats (unknown)
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- fabs (unknown)
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- Fast (a.)
In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
- Fast (a.)
In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
- 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.
- Fast (n.)
The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
- Fast (v.)
Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
- Fast (v.)
Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
- Fast (v.)
Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
- Fast (v.)
Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
- Fast (v.)
Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
- Fast (v.)
Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
- Fast (v.)
Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
- Fast (v.)
Tenacious; retentive.
- Fast (v. i.)
A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
- Fast (v. i.)
Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
- Fast (v. i.)
To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
- Fast (v. i.)
To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
- Fast (v. i.)
Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
- fats (unknown)
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- Stab (n.)
A wound with a sharp-pointed weapon; as, to fall by the stab an assassin.
- Stab (n.)
Fig.: An injury inflicted covertly or suddenly; as, a stab given to character.
- Stab (n.)
The thrust of a pointed weapon.
- Stab (v. i.)
To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.
- Stab (v. i.)
To wound or pain, as if with a pointed weapon.
- Stab (v. t.)
Fig.: To injure secretly or by malicious falsehood or slander; as, to stab a person's reputation.
- Stab (v. t.)
To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to stab a dagger into a person.
- tabs (unknown)
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