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
27 April 2024
(adjective) remarkable or out of the ordinary in degree or magnitude or effect; “a great crisis”; “had a great stake in the outcome”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
