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ˈsit-fast, sitfast, n. and a.
Also 7 sitt-.
[f. sit v. + fast adv.]
A. n.
1. Farriery. A hard excrescence, induration, or tumour, tending to ulceration, produced on the back of a horse by the uneven pressure or chafing of the saddle.
1611Cotgr., Mal de corne, the sitt-fast; a hornie swelling on the backe of a horse. 1639T. de Grey Expert Farrier 317 An hard knob..formerly a saddle-gald..is converted into a sit-fast. 1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4493/3 A white Gelding full aged,..a Sit-fast lately taken out about the middle of the Saddle-place. 1753Bartlet Gentl. Farriery (1754) 285 A sit-fast proceeds generally from a warble. 1831Youatt Horse 169 Warbles..will frequently disappear without medical treatment, but they will, at other times, degenerate into sitfasts. 1887Sat. Rev. 19 Nov. 707/2 Whether a warbly back or even a sitfast would be such unsoundness as to constitute breach of warranty.
fig.1661Hickeringill Jamaica 11 Arguments..sufficiently confirm'd by every Marriner, to take of [= off] the greatest sit-fast of incredulity. a1732Boston Crook in Lot (1805) 53 He can raise the oldest sit-fast, concerning which there remains no hope with us.
b. dial. (See quots.)
1828Carr Craven Gloss., Sit-fast, a false healing of a wound, whereby is made a hard scab or excrescence. 1888Abdy Sheffield Gloss. s.v., He's got a sit-fast in his arm. 1893Heslop Northumbld. Gloss., Sitfast, a hard substance which sometimes forms in a wound and prevents it from healing.
2. Sc.
a. The plants restharrow and creeping crowfoot.
1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. (ed. 2) 114 Of this sort are some species of the thistle, and what the ploughmen call sit-fasts. 1808Jamieson, Sitfasts, restharrow. 1825― Suppl., Sitfast, Creeping Crowfoot, Ranunculus Repens.
b. An earth-fast stone. (Cf. B. 1 a.)
1813R. Kerr Agric. Berwick i. 35 Some [stones] are even of many hundred weights, and are called sit-fasts. Ibid. 380.
3. dial. (See quot.)
1828Carr Craven Gloss., Sit-fast, a sottish person, one who sits long or is fast bound to his cups.
B. attrib. or as adj.
1. a. Sc. Of stones: Firmly fixed or embedded in the ground (cf. A. 2 b).
1801Farmer's Mag. Nov. 377 Land that is incumbered with sitfast stones, or with the roots of trees and bushes. 1880W. Marshall Hist. Scenes Perthshire (1881) 312 The land contains numbers of sitfast stones.
b. Remaining stationary; unmoving.
1857Emerson Poems 70 To find the sitfast acres where you left them.
2. Marked or characterized by sitting firmly; fixed, firm.
1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 165 Which the cultivators of the soil have not yet been able to dig up from its sitfast hold. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. i. ii. vi, For now no man..but will trot à l'Anglaise, rising in the stirrups; scornful of the old sitfast method. |