Word Meanings - REFASTEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To fasten again.

AGAINSTAND
To withstand.
AGAINSAY
To gainsay. Wyclif.
FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
AGAIN
again; on + geán, akin to Ger. gegewn against, Icel. gegn. Cf. 1. In return, back; as, bring us word again. 2. Another time; once more; anew. If a man die, shall he live again Job xiv. 14. 3. Once repeated; -- of quantity; as, as large again,
AGAINST
1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
AGAIN; AGAINS
Against; also, towards . Albeit that it is again his kind. Chaucer.
FASTENING
Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
AGAINWARD
Back again.
AGAINBUY
To redeem. Wyclif.
FASTEN
Etym: 1. To fix firmly; to make fast; to secure, as by a knot, lock, bolt, etc.; as, to fasten a chain to the feet; to fasten a door or window. 2. To cause to hold together or to something else; to attach or unite firmly; to cause to cleave to
THEREAGAIN
In opposition; against one's course. If that him list to stand thereagain. Chaucer.
UNFASTEN
To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.
COPPER-FASTENED
Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship.
REFASTEN
To fasten again.