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▪ I. lasting, n.|ˈlɑːstɪŋ, ˈlæst-|
[Elliptical use of lasting ppl. a.]
A durable kind of cloth; = everlasting B. 3.
1782Pennant Journ. Chester to Lond. 141 The making and sale of shags, camblets, lastings, tammies, &c. 1844G. Dodd Textile Manuf. iv. 113, 3–4 Lastings, 3–4 Fancy Lastings. 1857James Hist. Worsted Manuf. x. 362 There were different sorts of lastings as prunelles wrought with three healds. Also serge de Berry. 1871Echo 14 Jan., Other branches of trade,..such as damask and lastings, have much benefitted by the war. 1878A. Barlow Weaving 440 Lastings, a strong cloth used for ladies' boots and made of hard twisted yarn. 1895Strand Mag. Mar. 311 The man is clothed in a suit of ‘lasting’—that curious leathery material affected by the London apprentices in the days of Queen Elizabeth.
b. attrib.
1872–6Voyle & Stevenson Milit. Dict., Lasting Cloth, a material similar to prunella cloth... It has the property of not readily catching fire. 1892Labour Commission Gloss., Lasting-shoes, shoes of which the tops or upper parts are made from lasting.
▪ II. lasting, vbl. n.1|ˈlɑːstɪŋ, ˈlæst-|
Also 4–5 lesting.
[f. last v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of last v.1; continuance, duration, permanence.
c1340Cursor M. 19562 (Fairf.) In lasting of cristen mannis life. 1375Barbour Bruce ix. 283 Thai had bath bot schort lesting, For thai deit soyn eftir syne. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 108 After þe quantyte of þy tresour is þe lastyng and þe defens, of þy kyngdom. c1440Promp. Parv. 299/1 Lestynge, or yndurynge, perduracio. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Longue durée, of long during or lasting. 1597Bacon Ess., Reg. Health (Arb.) 58 To be free minded, and chearefully disposed at howers of meate, and of sleepe, and of exercise, is the best precept of long lasting. 1609B. Jonson Sil. Wom. ii. iii, Thou art made for euer..if this felicitie haue lasting. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 30 To prevent the Doors and Windows from being press'd with too much weight..is of no little importance for the lasting of the Building. 1765A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. (ed. 2) 230 The lasting of the iron plough, and the value of the iron.
b. Staying power; = last n.4 2. Also attrib.
1860Russell Diary India II. 346 Essentials to develope a man in stature, or strength, or ‘lasting’. 1898St. James's Gaz. 12 Nov. 4/1 That mysterious thing known as ‘lasting power’, or ‘staying quality’.
▪ III. † ˈlasting, vbl. n.2 Obs.
Also 3 lastung.
[f. last v.3 + -ing1.]
Abuse, blame, reproach.
a1225Ancr. R. 66 Vor heo hunteð efter pris, & keccheð lastunge. Ibid. 212 Þuruh more lastunge heo wrencheð hit to wurse. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 270 A þef is more worþi to be suffrid þan þe lastynge of a lesyngmongere.
▪ IV. lasting, vbl. n.3|ˈlɑːstɪŋ, ˈlæst-|
[f. last v.4 + -ing1.]
The action of shaping a boot or shoe on the last: chiefly attrib., as lasting-awl, lasting-machine, † lasting-stick; lasting-jack, -pincers (see quots.).
1719D'Urfey Pills VI. 92 My Lasts..and my lasting Sticks. 1875Knight Dict. Mech., Lasting-jack, an implement to hold the last while straining and securing the upper thereon. Ibid., Lasting-pincers (Shoemaking), a tool to grip the edges of the upper leather of a boot and draw it over the last. 1880Encycl. Brit. XXI. 830/2 Lasting is a crucial operation, for, unless the upper is drawn smoothly and equally over the last, leaving neither crease nor wrinkle, the form of the boot will be bad. 1895Daily News 13 Mar. 3/2 There is a magnetic lasting machine which takes up the tacks and presses them into a boot when it is on the last. 1907Westm. Gaz. 4 Nov. 8/4 This method of ‘lasting’ is new. 1968J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 126 The lasting, i.e. the making of the upper on the last.
▪ V. lasting, ppl. a. and a.|ˈlɑːstɪŋ, ˈlæst-|
Forms: 2–3 lestend, -inde, 3 leastinde, 4–5 lastand, -end, -ond, 4–6 Sc. and north. lestand, 4– lasting.
[f. last v.1 + -ing2.]
1. Continuing, enduring; also of long continuance, permanent. (In early use often contextually = ‘everlasting’.) † always (or † ay) lasting = everlasting.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 159 Eche hele, lestende liht, and endeles lif. a1225Leg. Kath. 2294 To arisen from ream to aa lestinde lahtre. 1258Charter Hen. III in Tyrrell Hist. Eng. (1700) II. App. 25 We willen thet this beo stede⁓fæst and lestinde. c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 221 Stoutly was þat stoure, long lastand þat fight. 1375Barbour Bruce xx. 620 God..Bryng ws hye till hevynnis bliss, Quhar all-wayis lestand liking is. c1440York Myst. i. 46 In blys for to byde in hys blyssyng, Ay lastande. c1470Henry Wallace vii. 104 To thi reward thou sall haiff lestand blyss. a1550in Dunbar's Poems (1893) 328 Fall on kneis doun Befoir the king of lestand lyfe and lycht. a1586Sidney Arcadia iii. (1590) 337 b, The strongest building, and lastingest monarchies are subiect to end. 1603B. Jonson K. Jas.' Entertainm. Coronation Wks. (1616) 862 That did auspicate So lasting glory to Avgvstvs state. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xvii. 87 Somwhat else required to make their Agreement constant and lasting. 1682Sir T. Browne Let. Wks. (1836) I. 346 Retarded by the lasting south-west wind. 1738G. Lillo Marina iii. ii. 47 The lasting'st peace is death. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. xii. I. 346 A lasting deliverance from the inroads of the Scythian nations. 1809Med. Jrnl. XXI. 312 It is not..from a vast variety of external applications..that we are to expect lasting or even temporary benefit. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xv. III. 506 The husband of that Alice Lisle whose death has left a lasting stain on the memory of James the Second. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) V. 363 All these things are only lasting when they depend upon one another.
2. Of material substances: Durable. † Of provisions, fruit, etc.: Keeping well; continuing fresh and undecayed (obs.).
c1350Will. Palerne 1736 [She] laced wel eche leme wiþ lastend þonges. 1599H. Buttes Dyets drie Dinner N v, Creame..neither is it so lasting as butter. 1602Shakes. Ham. i. iii. 8 A Violet..Forward, not permanent; sweet, not lasting. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies iii. xvii. 173 This stone..is light and lasting. 1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 55 A sort of good lasting fish. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. vii. 50 And Spanish Brown will make a lasting Colour for course Work. 1721Berkeley Prev. Ruin Gt. Brit. Wks. III. 199 Our black cloth is neither so lasting, nor of so good a dye as the Dutch.
3. Sporting slang. Of a horse: Able to ‘stay’; possessed of staying power. (Cf. last n.4)
1811Sporting Mag. XXXVII. 135 To get not only speedy but lasting racers. 1821Ibid. New Ser. VIII. 88 How much a..lasting English racer, is capable of performing. |