Word Meanings - SUBNECT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To tie or fasten beneath; to join beneath. Pope.

FASTENER
One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
BENEATH
1. Lower in place, with something directly over or on; under; underneath; hence, at the foot of. "Beneath the mount." Ex. xxxii.
FASTENING
Anything that binds and makes fast, as a lock, catch, bolt, bar, buckle, etc.
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
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.