Fist
(Fist) n. [OE. fist, fust, AS. fyst; akin to D. vuist, OHG. fust, G. faust, and prob. to L. pugnus,
Gr. pygmh` fist, py`x with the fist. Cf. Pugnacious, Pigmy.]
1. The hand with the fingers doubled into the palm; the closed hand, especially as clinched tightly for the
purpose of striking a blow.
Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist.
Herbert. 2. The talons of a bird of prey. [Obs.]
More light than culver in the falcon's fist.
Spenser. 3. (print.) the index mark [], used to direct special attention to the passage which follows.
Hand over fist (Naut.), rapidly; hand over hand.
Fist
(Fist), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Fisted; p. pr. & vb. n. Fisting.]
1. To strike with the fist. Dryden.
2. To gripe with the fist. [Obs.] Shak.
Fistic
(Fist"ic) a. [From Fist.] Pertaining to boxing, or to encounters with the fists; puglistic; as, fistic
exploits; fistic heroes. [Colloq.]
Fisticuff
(Fist"i*cuff) n. A cuff or blow with the fist or hand; (pl.) a fight with the fists; boxing. Swift.
Fistinut
(Fis"ti*nut) n. [Cf. Fr. fistinq, fistuq. See Pistachio.] A pistachio nut. [Obs.] Johnson.
Fistuca
(||Fis*tu"ca) n. [L.] An instrument used by the ancients in driving piles.
Fistula
(||Fis"tu*la) n.; pl. Fistulæ [L.]
1. A reed; a pipe.
2. A pipe for convejing water. [Obs.] Knight.
3. (Med.) A permanent abnormal opening into the soft parts with a constant discharge; a deep, narrow,
chronic abscess; an abnormal opening between an internal cavity and another cavity or the surface; as, a
salivary fistula; an anal fistula; a recto-vaginal fistula.
Incomplete fistula (Med.), a fistula open at one end only.
Fistular
(Fis"tu*lar) a. [L. fistularis: cf. F. fistulaire.] Hollow and cylindrical, like a pipe or reed. Johnson.
Fistularia
(||Fis`tu*la"ri*a) n. [NL., fr. L. fistula pipe.] (Zoöl.) A genus of fishes, having the head prolonged
into a tube, with the mouth at the extremity.
Fistularioid
(Fis`tu*la"ri*oid) a. [Fistularia + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the genus Fistularia.
Fistulate
(Fis"tu*late) v. t. & i. [Cf. L. fistulatus furnished with pipes.] To make hollow or become
hollow like a fistula, or pipe. [Obs.] "A fistulated ulcer." Fuller.
Fistule
(Fis"tule) n. A fistula.
