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Webster 1913 Edition


Fust

Fust

(fŭst)
,
Noun.
[OF.
fust
, F.
fût
, fr. L.
fustis
stick staff.]
(Arch.)
The shaft of a column, or trunk of a pilaster.
Gwilt.

Fust

,
Noun.
[OF.
fust
cask, F.
fût
cask, taste or smell of the cask,
fustiness
, cf. sentir le
fût
to taste of the cask. See 1st
Fust
.]
A strong, musty smell; mustiness.

Fust

,
Verb.
I.
To become moldy; to smell ill.
[Obs.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Fust

FUST

,
Noun.
[L. fustis, a staff.] The shaft of a column.

Definition 2024


fust

fust

See also: füst and Füst

English

Verb

fust (third-person singular simple present fusts, present participle fusting, simple past and past participle fusted)

  1. (obsolete) To decay.
    • 1602 : William Shakespeare, Hamlet , act IV scene 4
      Sure he that made us with such large discourse
      Looking before and after, gave us not
      That capability and godlike reason
      To fust in us unused.

Noun

fust (plural fusts)

  1. A strong musty smell; mustiness.

Anagrams


Dutch

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ʏst

Noun

fust n (plural fusten, diminutive fustje n)

  1. cask (e.g. containing beer)

Middle French

Alternative forms

Verb

fust

  1. third-person singular past historic of estre

Old French

Etymology 1

see estre.

Alternative forms

Verb

fust

  1. third-person singular past historic of estre
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Latin fustis.

Noun

fust m (oblique plural fuz or futz, nominative singular fuz or futz, nominative plural fust)

  1. wood (material from a plant)
  2. wooden beam or plank
  3. bole (part of a tree trunk)
    • circa 1176, Chrétien de Troyes, Cligès:
      Ausi come escorce sanz fust
      Just like bark without a tree trunk
  4. club (weapon)
    • circa 1181, Chrétien de Troyes, Roman de la Charrette:
      Escuz et hiaumes et haubers.
      Nes garantist ne fuz ne fers
      Shields and helmets and armor.
      Couldn't protect neither clubs nor swords

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *funstiz, whence also Old English fyst, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pnsti-, a variant of *pnksti- ‘fist’, *pn̥kʷ-sti (fist), a derivative of *pénkʷe (five). Cognate with Old Frisian fest, Old Saxon fūst (Dutch vuist) and with Russian пясть (pjastʹ, palm of the hand), Polish pięść ‘fist’, Serbian pest 'fist' and prst 'finger'.

Noun

fūst f

  1. fist

Descendants