fist, clenched fist
(noun) a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)
Source: WordNet® 3.1
fist (plural fists)
A hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward.
(printing) The pointing hand symbol ☞.
(ham radio) The characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code.
(slang) A person's characteristic handwriting.
A group of men.
The talons of a bird of prey.
(informal) An attempt at something.
• bunch of fives
• fist-size
• ductus
fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)
To strike with the fist.
To close (the hand) into a fist.
To grip with a fist.
(slang) To fist-fuck.
fist (third-person singular simple present fists, present participle fisting, simple past and past participle fisted)
(intransitive) To break wind.
fist (plural fists)
The act of breaking wind; fise.
A puffball.
• FITs, FiTs, ITFs, TIFs, fits, sift
FIST
Acronym of Future Infantry Soldier Technology.
• FITs, FiTs, ITFs, TIFs, fits, sift
Source: Wiktionary
Fist, n. Etym: [OE. fist, fust, AS. f; akin to D. vuist, OHG. f, G. faust, and prob. to L. pugnus, Gr. Pugnacious, Pigmy.]
1. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow. Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist. Herbert.
2. The talons of a bird of prey. [Obs.] More light than culver in the falcon's fist. Spenser.
3. (print.)
Definition: the index mark [], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows. Hand over fist (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.
Fist, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fisting.]
1. To strike with the fist. Dryden.
2. To gripe with the fist. [Obs.] Shak.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
