<OL TYPE="1"><LI>a fasting, fast<OL TYPE="a"><LI>a voluntary, as a religious exercise<OL TYPE="1"><LI>of private fasting<LI>the public fast as prescribed by the Mosaic Law and kept yearly on the great day of atonement, the tenth of the month of Tisri (the month Tisri comprises a part of our September and October); the fast accordingly, occurred in the autumn when navigation was usually dangerous on account of storms</OL><LI>a fasting caused by want or poverty</OL></OL>