Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In architecture, the shaft of a column, or the trunk of a pilaster.
  • To be fusty; become moldy; smell ill.
  • noun A strong musty smell.
  • noun Same as foist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A strong, musty smell; mustiness.
  • intransitive verb obsolete To become moldy; to smell ill.
  • noun (Arch.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of a pilaster.

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  • verb obsolete To decay.

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Examples

  • My name is Primus -- dat mean, in Latin, fust -- so

    The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams

  • She was at me this mornin 'fust thing 'fore I was out o' bed, cryin 'and goin' on, and castin 'on it up at me the men she might 'a hed if she had n't' a 'hed me, and the things they' d 'a' done for her, jest as if 't was my fault.

    Oldtown Folks 1869

  • The latter term is generally translated "town of leathern tents;" but in Arabic "fustát" is an abode of Sha'ar = hair, such as horse-hair, in fact any hair but "Wabar" = soft hair, as the camel's.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • But now I can talk their lingo fust-rate; but pa, he can't talk to 'em nohow; he hain't learned the fust word; 'n' he's ben here goin 'on two years longer'n we have. "

    Ramona 1921

  • Say, that young chap that was here when I called the fust time -- studyin 'to be a lawyer, is he? "

    Cap'n Warren's Wards Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907

  • But now I can talk their lingo fust-rate; but pa, he can't talk to 'em nohow; he hain't learned the fust word; 'n' he's ben here goin 'on two years longer'n we have. "

    Ramona Helen Hunt Jackson 1857

  • Some is good, an 'some is bad, an' if all the Blueskins are like their Boolooroo, they can't be called fust-class. "

    Sky Island: being the further exciting adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill after their visit to the sea fairies 1887

  • "It was 'is fust time, but' e come back wi 'two poun' ten in 'is pockit, an' 'e was only gone a month."

    THE SPIKE 2010

  • They got their answer when the fust two whirlwinds to enter the canyon paused in their advance and turned toward the mound of boulders.

    The Lives of Felix Gunderson Sugu Althomsons 2010

  • "I may be a Bantu, but fust of all, I is an American, an I's real proud to be your friend."

    The Green-Eyed Shwemyethna 2010

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