fist

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. The hand closed tightly with the fingers bent against the palm.
2. n. Informal A grasp; a clutch: had a fortune in their fists and let it go.
3. n. Printing See index.
4. v. To clench into a fist.
5. v. To grasp with the fist.
6. v. Vulgar To insert the fist into the rectum or vagina of (another) as a means of sexual stimulation.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The hand clenched; the hand with the fingers doubled into the palm.
2. n. Used to translate German faust, hand-breadth, equal in Austria to 10.54 centimeters, or about 4 inches.
3. To strike with the fist.
4. To grip with the fist.
5. n. The act of breaking wind: same as fise.
6. n. A puffball.
7. To break wind.
8. n. In printing, the index sign , included by type-founders among the marks of reference.
9. n. Same as fise and fise-dog.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To break wind.
2. n. The act of breaking wind; fise.
3. n. A puffball.
4. n. hand with the fingers clenched or curled inward
5. n. printing the pointing hand symbol ☞
6. n. ham radio the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual telegraph or CW operator when sending Morse code
7. n. slang a person's characteristic handwriting
8. n. A group of men
9. v. To strike with the fist.
10. v. To close (the hand) into a fist.
11. v. To grip with a fist.
12. v. slang To fist-fuck.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
2. n. obsolete The talons of a bird of prey.
3. n. (print.) the index mark [☞], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
4. v. To strike with the fist.
5. v. obsolete To gripe with the fist.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)