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<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Licentious craving; sexual appetite.</def>

<i>Milton.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bacon.</i>

<h1>Lust</h1> <Xpage=876>

<hw>Lust</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Lusted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Lusting</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>lystan</ets>. See <er>Lust</er>, <tt>n.</tt>, and cf. List to choose.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To list; to like.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> <i>Chaucer</i>. " Do so if thou <i>lust</i>. "

<i>Latimer.</i>

<note>&hand; In earlier usage <i>lust</i> was impersonal.

<blockquote>In the water vessel he it cast When that him <b>luste</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote> </note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with <ptcl>after</ptcl>.</def>

<blockquote>Whatsoever thy soul <b>lusteth</b> after. <i>Deut. xii. 15.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Whosoever looketh on a woman to <b>lust</b> after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. <i>Matt. v. 28.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The spirit that dwelleth in us <b>lusteth</b> to envy. <i>James iv. 5. </i></blockquote>

<h1>Luster</h1> <Xpage=876>

<hw>Lust"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who lusts.</def>

<h1>Luster Lustre</h1> <Xpage=876>

<hw>Lus"ter Lus"tre</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>lustrum</ets>: cf. F. <ets>lustre</ets>.]</ety> <def>A period of five years; a lustrum.</def>

<blockquote>Both of us have closed the tenth <b>luster</b>. <i>Bolingbroke.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Luster, Lustre</h1> <Xpage=876>

<hw><hw>Lus"ter</hw>, <hw>Lus"tre</hw>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>lustre</ets>; cf. It. <ets>lustro</ets>; both fr. L. <ets>lustrare</ets> to purify, go about (like the priests at the lustral sacrifice), traverse, survey, illuminate, fr. <ets>lustrum</ets> a purificatory sacrifice; perh. akin to E. <ets>loose</ets>. But <ets>lustrare</ets> to illuminate is perh. a different word, and akin to L. <ets>lucere</ets> to be light or clear, to shine. See <er>Lucid</er>, and cf. <er>Illustrious</er>, <er>Lustrum</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Brilliancy; splendor; brightness; glitter.</def>

<blockquote>The right mark and very true <b>luster</b> of the diamond. <i>Sir T. More.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The scorching sun was mounted high, In all its <b>luster</b>, to the noonday sky. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; There is a tendency to limit the use of <i>luster</i>, in this sense, to the brightness of things which do not shine with their own light, or at least do not blaze or glow with heat. One speaks of the <i>luster</i> of a diamond, or of silk, or even of the stars, but not often now of the <i>luster</i> of the sun, a coal of fire, or the like.</note>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Renown; splendor; distinction; glory.</def>

<blockquote>His ancestors continued about four hundred years, rather without obscurity than with any great <b>luster</b>. <i>Sir H. Wotton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A candlestick, chandelier, girandole, or the like, generally of an ornamental character.</def>