hand-fast —
“In,”
THE WINTER'S TALE, iv. 4.
757.
In custody (properly—in mainprise,
in the custody of a friend on security given for appearance): If that shepherd be not in hand-fast,
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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