Fust

/fʌst/ · noun

Meaning

A strong musty smell; mustiness..

Definitions by Sense

1. A strong musty smell; mustiness.
2. (architecture) The shaft (main body) of a column.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To turn mouldy, to decay.
4. (intransitive) Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.
5. (nautical, historical) A type of small galley.
6. Nonstandard form of first.

Example Sentences

the fust of old books & older cheese / nobody loves gossip like these salaried dudes

Despite having been awake now for more than twenty-four hours – and the comforts of gaol had not been so great that I'd slept quietly there, to say nothing of my troubling dreams – I was curiously refreshed. The brisk air blew away the fogs and fusts of London.

One or two wondered then, as if suddenly recalling the outlander, how he would manage, or if he would perish, up there among his unholy modern machineries that puffed out frozen steam to store the deer meat and shot fowl for him, […] "And there were big boxes lugged up there, done up in iron clasps. Cruel-cold earth in those." […] "Like corpse boxes," someone else suggested, down in the half-light, snug fust of the village drinking shop.

Cherici, Giuseppe, & Sons, Volterra. A large alabaster vase, after the Etrurian style; executed in the exhibitors' manufactory in Volterra, […] The vase is placed on the fust of a column of the Tuscan order.

Façade of the Benedictines' convent and church wonderfully crowded with ornaments, as likewise the altars generally adorned with twisted pillars flourished all over, and loaden with little puttini, birds, and the like in clusters on the chapiters and between the wreaths along the fusts of the columns.

Sure he that made vs with ſuch large diſcourse / Looking before and after, gaue vs not / That capabilitie and god-like reaſon / To fvſt in vs vnvſed, […]

I mowlde, or fust, as corne dothe. Je moisis, sec. conj.

I marvel that the clergy don't propose / A day of fasting and humiliation, / As they did when potatoe crops were fusted;— / We're now much worse, when porridge-pots are rusted.

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• fusts
• fusting
• fusted

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