Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The hand closed tightly with the fingers bent against the palm.
- noun Informal A grasp; a clutch.
- transitive verb To clench into a fist.
- transitive verb To grasp with the fist.
- transitive verb Vulgar To insert the hand into the rectum or vagina of (someone) as a means of sexual stimulation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To break wind.
- noun The hand clenched; the hand with the fingers doubled into the palm.
- noun Used to translate German faust, hand-breadth, equal in Austria to 10.54 centimeters, or about 4 inches.
- noun In printing, the index sign , included by type-founders among the marks of reference.
- To strike with the fist.
- To grip with the fist.
- noun Same as
fise and fise-dog. - noun The act of breaking wind: same as
fise . - noun A puffball.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the purpose of striking a blow.
- noun obsolete The talons of a bird of prey.
- noun (print.) the index mark [☞], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
- noun (Naut.) rapidly; hand over hand.
- transitive verb To strike with the fist.
- transitive verb obsolete To gripe with the fist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To
break wind . - noun The act of breaking wind;
fise . - noun A
puffball . - noun
hand with thefingers clenched orcurled inward - noun printing the pointing
hand symbol☞ - noun ham radio the characteristic signaling rhythm of an individual
telegraph or CW operator when sendingMorse code - noun slang a person's characteristic
handwriting - noun A group of men
- verb To strike with the fist.
- verb To close (the hand) into a fist.
- verb To
grip with a fist. - verb slang To
fist-fuck .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hand with the fingers clenched in the palm (as for hitting)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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This is a column I originally wrote for the St. Petersburg Times a few days ago, about what I called the fist pound explained 'round the world.
Eric Deggans: Why is Everything Obama Does Considered so, well, Exotic? 2008
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This is a column I originally wrote for the St. Petersburg Times a few days ago, about what I called the fist pound explained 'round the world.
Eric Deggans: Why is Everything Obama Does Considered so, well, Exotic? 2008
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This is a column I originally wrote for the St. Petersburg Times a few days ago, about what I called the fist pound explained 'round the world.
Eric Deggans: Why is Everything Obama Does Considered so, well, Exotic? 2008
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It was like sparring for an opening in fist-fighting.
Chapter 20 2010
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June 1, 2009 at 7: 40 pm iron fist is one of best marvel has if it gets canned im going to pissed ectocooler
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The clenched fist is an amazingly versatile social tool.
Matthew Yglesias » How Many Divisions Has Jane Hamsher? 2010
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Olympic shooters fling arrows -- shot from recurve bows with no sights -- at targets 100 meters away and group them in fist-size wads.
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Perhaps the fist is not a fist, but a waving hand; perhaps the voice is not a cry, but a call.
david pichaske | 3 poems « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2008
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The fist is still there, but it wears that infamous velvet glove.
Diplomacy now an essential skill for major league managers 2008
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"But doctor look, I can barely make a fist, is it arthritis?"
whichbe commented on the word fist
☛
Though rare today, this symbol was in common use between the 12th and 18th centuries in the margins of books, and was formerly included in lists of standard punctuation marks. Its typical use is as a bullet-like symbol to direct the reader’s attention to important text, having roughly the same meaning as the word "attention" or "note".
It primarily fell out of favor because its complex design made it unfit for handwriting, and its wide size made it difficult to fit on a typewriter or on early, low-resolution, monospaced computer fonts. Thus, it was not included in early forms of ASCII. It was, however, added to Unicode.
Other names for the symbol include: index (HEY, this is a bug!), bishop's fist, digit, manicule, mutton-fist and pointing hand.
July 31, 2008
reesetee commented on the word fist
That's the problem with texts today--no manicules. How am I supposed to find the good stuff? :-)
July 31, 2008
whichbe commented on the word fist
I believe they still use these in the For Dummies series. Not that I'd know!
July 31, 2008