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Meaning of वेगवान in English

  • See Descant, n.
  • of Expedite
  • Possessed of, or characterized by, expedition, or efficiency and rapidity in action; performed with, or acting with, expedition; quick; having celerity; speedily; as, an expeditious march or messenger.
  • A bundle of rods, having among them an ax with the blade projecting, borne before the Roman magistrates as a badge of their authority.
  • A wire basket on the end of a rod to carry glass bottles, etc., to the annealing furnace; also, an iron rod to be thrust into the mouths of bottles, and used for the same purpose; -- called also pontee and punty.
  • Pertaining to the fasces.
  • Relating to a fascia.
  • To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole or in part; to go hungry.
  • To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of grief, or humiliation and penitence.
  • Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
  • Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
  • A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
  • Firmly fixed; closely adhering; made firm; not loose, unstable, or easily moved; immovable; as, to make fast the door.
  • Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
  • Firm in adherence; steadfast; not easily separated or alienated; faithful; as, a fast friend.
  • Permanent; not liable to fade by exposure to air or by washing; durable; lasting; as, fast colors.
  • Tenacious; retentive.
  • Not easily disturbed or broken; deep; sound.
  • Moving rapidly; quick in mition; rapid; swift; as, a fast horse.
  • Given to pleasure seeking; disregardful of restraint; reckless; wild; dissipated; dissolute; as, a fast man; a fast liver.
  • In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
  • In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
  • That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring.
  • The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster.
  • One who abstains from food.
  • Narrowing towards the top.
  • Clustered, parallel, and upright, as the branches of the Lombardy poplar; pointed.
  • United into a conical bundle, or into a bundle with an enlarged head, like a sheaf of wheat.
  • Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated.
  • Proud; haughty; disdainful.
  • Unpalatable.
  • of Insolate
  • Having, or relating to, sepals; -- used mostly in composition. See under Sepal.
  • To separate from the owner for a time; to take from parties in controversy and put into the possession of an indifferent person; to seize or take possession of, as property belonging to another, and hold it till the profits have paid the demand for which it is taken, or till the owner has performed the decree of court, or clears himself of contempt; in international law, to confiscate.
  • To cause (one) to submit to the process of sequestration; to deprive (one) of one's estate, property, etc.
  • To set apart; to put aside; to remove; to separate from other things.
  • To cause to retire or withdraw into obscurity; to seclude; to withdraw; -- often used reflexively.
  • To withdraw; to retire.
  • To renounce (as a widow may) any concern with the estate of her husband.
  • Sequestration; separation.
  • A person with whom two or more contending parties deposit the subject matter of the controversy; one who mediates between two parties; a mediator; an umpire or referee.
  • Same as Sequestrum.
  • See Spatulate.
  • Species; sort.
  • of Speed
  • One who, or that which, speeds.
  • A machine for drawing and twisting slivers to form rovings.
  • Full of speed (in any sense).
  • Being without speed.
  • Any plant of the genus Veronica, mostly low herbs with pale blue corollas, which quickly fall off.
  • Not dilatory or slow; quick; swift; nimble; hasty; rapid in motion or performance; as, a speedy flight; on speedy foot.
  • Wet; soggy; inclined to spew.
  • Any one of numerous species of small East Indian and Asiatic swifts of the genus Collocalia. Some of the species are noted for furnishing the edible bird's nest. See Illust. under Edible.

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