The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fast \Fast\, adv. [OE. faste firmly, strongly, quickly, AS. f[ae]ste. See Fast, a.]
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In a fast, fixed, or firmly established manner; fixedly; firmly; immovably.
We will bind thee fast.
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In a fast or rapid manner; quickly; swiftly; extravagantly; wildly; as, to run fast; to live fast.
Fast by, or Fast beside, close or near to; near at hand.
He, after Eve seduced, unminded slunk Into the wood fast by.
--Milton.Fast by the throne obsequious Fame resides.
--Pope.
Usage examples of "fast beside".
As they rode north, the River Gwyn sparkled as white as its name as it ran fast beside the road.
F'lar swore long and imaginatively, wishing T'reb of Fort Weyr immured between with Weyrleader T'ron fast beside him.
Martin drove up fast beside him, braked to a wheel-locked standstill, opened his door, and stood up smoothly outside it.
One, bearing a blue-haired, scrunch-faced being, swept down fast beside the platform of Ask Aak.
Each of them had been faced with a desperate choice: to hold fast beside Braumin and be executed or to betray the words and spirit of Jojonah.
Are you not the same Jilseponie who stood fast beside Elbryan against the direst of odds?
He looked up at the sky where silvered clouds flew fast beside the moon.
Trotting fast beside the river came a rider leading a spare horse.