King James Bible Dictionary

FIST, noun

The hand clinched; the hand with the fingers doubled into the palm.

FIST, verb transitive

1. To strike with the fist

2. To gripe with the fist

FIST'ICUFFS, noun [fist and cuff.] Blows or a combat with the fist; a boxing.

FIS'TULA, noun [Latin ; Eng. whistle.]

1. Properly, a pipe; a wind instrument of music, originally a reed.

2. A surgery, a deep, narrow and callous ulcer, generally arising from abscesses. It differs from a sinus, in being callous.

Fistula lachrymalis, a fistula of the lachrymal sac, a disorder accompanied with a flowing of tears.

FIS'TULAR, adjective Hollow, like a pipe or reed.

FIS'TULATE, verb intransitive To become a pipe or fistula.

FIS'TULATE, verb transitive To make hollow like a pipe. [Little used.]

FIS'TULIFORM, adjective [fistula and form.] Being in round hollow columns, as a mineral.

Stalactite often occurs fistuliform

FIS'TULOUS, adjective Having the form or nature of a fistula; as a fistulous ulcer.