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lusty, a.|ˈlʌstɪ|
Also 3–5 lusti, 6 losty, 6–7 lustie.
[f. lust n. + -y. Cf. MHG. lustic (mod.G. lustig), ON. lostig-r.]
†1. Of persons and their attributes: Joyful, merry, jocund; cheerful, lively. Obs.
a1225Leg. Kath. 1693 Alle pleiende somet, alle lahinde somet, eauer iliche lusti. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 655 And from his courser, with a lusty herte, In to a groue ful hastily he sterte. 14..Epiphany in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 109 With lusty hart and glad chere and myld of face. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rom. Prol., The lawe requireth a fre, a willinge, a lusty and a louynge hearte. 1552R. Ascham Germany 16 The one so lusty with good luck that he had no lust to leave, and the other so chafed with losing that he still would venture. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 41 The gentlemen..keepe sumptuous houses, lusty ports, and great hospitalitie. 1621Fletcher Isl. Princess ii. vii, My most noble Princes, no discontents, but all be lustie, He that frownes this day is an open enemie.
b. Of singing, music, festivities: Merry, cheerful. Now arch. and dial.
1430–40Lydg. Bochas Prol. (1554) 35 Their..lustie freshe singing. c1440― Nightingale Poems 3/37 Sche,..all the someres nyght Ne seseth not with mony a lusty note. 1519Interl. Four Elem. (Percy Soc.) 50 Let us some lusty balet syng. 1535Coverdale Amos vi. 7 The lusty chere [1611 banquet] of the wylfull shall come to an ende. 1596Sir J. Davies Orchestra lxviii, With loftie turnes and capriols in the ayre, Which with the lustie tunes accordeth fayre. 1622Fletcher Beggars Bush iv. v, Well met sir, you are for this lusty wedding? 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. iv, The lusty banqueting with sweetmeats and comfits. 1864Skeat tr. Uhland's Poems 262 Hark! a lusty horn is sounded. 1896Crockett Grey Man xxvii. 183 Never once did we speak of wars and stratagems..but all of friendship, of lusty daffing, and of leasome love.
†2. Pleasing, pleasant. Obs.
†a. Pleasing in appearance; beautiful. Obs.
a1240Wohunge in Cott. Hom. 269 Þi leor is swa unimete lufsum and lusti on to loken. 1390Gower Conf. I. 35 Now be the lusti somer floures, Now be the stormy wynter shoures. 1412–20Lydg. Chron. Troy i. vi, The medowes..Tapited bene with diuers floures newe, Of sundry motlees lusty for to sene. 1513Douglas æneis xi. ix. 86 Lavynia..That doun for schame did cast hyr lusty eyn [L. decoros]. 1530Tindale Gen. iii. 6 The woman sawe that it was a good tree to eate of and lustie unto the eyes. 1562Turner Baths 9 a, Hillockes whych are pleasant and lusty to loke unto. a1600Montgomerie Misc. Poems xvii. 63 Quhen throu hir garments, heir and thair, Appeirit hir lustie limis square.
†b. Of dress: Handsome, gay. Of persons: Gaily dressed. Obs.
c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 486 Who now moost may bere on his bak at ones Of cloth and furrour, hath a fressch renoun; He is ‘a lusty man’ clept for þe nones. 1508Dunbar Gold. Targe 58 Ane hundreth ladyes, lustie in to wedis, Als fresch as flouris that in May vp spredis. 1530Palsgr. 318/1 Lusty or fresshe in apparayle, frisque. 1555Bradford in Strype Eccl. Mem. III. App. xlv. 134 Ye shall prove their lustie lyveryes to be bought with exceeding great excesse. 1584Peele Arraignm. Paris i. i, Her lustie mantle wauing in the winde. 1603Drayton Odes x. 7 Long since the Summer layd Her lustie Brav'rie downe. 1610Fletcher Faithf. Shepherdess i. i, Euery shepheards boy Puts on his lusty greene.
†c. Of seasons, places, etc.: Pleasant, delightful. Obs.
a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 736 And with him, in that lusty place, So fair folk and so fresh hadde he. c1386― Sqr.'s T. 44 Ful lusty was the weder and benigne. c1430Lydg. Reas. & Sens. (E.E.T.S.) 4807 In that fressh[e] lusty place Hem to disporte and solace. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. lxxix. [lxxv.] 236 It was in the ioly lusty moneth of Aprell. c1590Marlowe Faust. i. 149 That I may coniure in some lustie groue. 1610Fletcher Faithf. Shepherdess i. i, Since the lusty spring began.
†d. Pleasant to the taste. Obs.
c1430Lydg. Compl. Bl. Knt. 29 Till firy Tytan..Had dried up the lusty lycour nywe, Upon the herbes in the grene mede. a1450Myrc 1436 Also ȝef þou synned hast In mete or drynke by lusty tast.
†e. Of language, eloquence, etc.: Pleasing, agreeable. Obs.
1399Pol. Poems (Rolls) I. 372 That it be lore lawefulle, and lusty to here. c1449Pecock Repr. ii. xviii. 255 Into this eende..thei vsiden certein colouris of rethorik, that with hem her spechis schulde be the more lusti. 1513Bradshaw St. Werburge i. 980 All the audyence Reioysed to here her lusty eloquence. a1529Skelton Replyc. etc. Wks. 1843 I. 207 Yong scolers..when they haue delectably lycked a lytell of the lycorous electuary of lusty lerning.
†3. Full of desire, desirous. Const. to, for. Obs.
c1400Destr. Troy 10598 Sum lordes to lenge lusty þai were. 1493Festivall (W. de W. 1515) 96 Than George bad y⊇ kynge..be lusty to goddes servyce. 1552Latimer Serm. Lincoln. vii. (1562) 124 b, These thynges are written for our sake, to make vs lustie to folowe oure vocation. 1657S. Purchas Pol. Flying-Ins. 97 Lusty for labour.
†4. Full of lust or sexual desire; lustful. Obs.
c1386Chaucer Manciple's Prol. 41 Fy stynkyng swyn fy, foule moot thee falle,..A taketh heede sires, of this lusty man. 1483Cath. Angl. 224/2 Lusty,..libidinosus. 1523Fitzherb. Husb. §68 It is better to kepe the horse frome the mares,..for..he shall be more lusty, and the moo horse coltes shall he gete. 1562Child Marriages etc. 75 He went..when he was lustie, to his wief, and vsid her companye in bed. 1610Fletcher Faithf. Shepherdess iv. ii, Prouoking thoughts that stirr vpp lusty fiers. 1611Cotgr., Rechauffer vn chien, to make him lustie, or desirous of the bitch. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 104 While their Youth is fill'd with kindly Fire, Submit thy Females to the lusty Sire.
5. Full of healthy vigour.
a. Of persons and animals: Healthy, strong, vigorous. Also of a period of life: Characterized by vigour. Now somewhat arch. in literary use; common in dialects. † In early use often: Valiant, courageous, active (obs.).
c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 85 This..knyght..Was yong and there with all a lusty knyght. c1386― Prol. 80 With hym ther was his sone a yong Squier A louyere, and a lusty Bacheler. 1486Bk. St. Albans b vj b, That hawke was neuer so lusty nor so Joly before. 1521in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. I. 281, I mett his Holynes, and my thought I never sawe hym mor losty. 1535Coverdale Prov. xvii. 22 A mery herte maketh a lusty age, but a sorowfull minde dryeth vp y⊇ bones. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. (1586) 128 For milcking, or for feeding, it is best alwaies to choose such as are young, of lusty age. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 66. 1612 T. Taylor Comm. Titus i. 15 All idle, lustie, and wandring beggars, who ought not to eate. a1648Digby Closet Open. (1669) 27 Cause a lusty Servant (his Arms well washed) to mix the honey and water together. 1702Pope Jan. & May 135 Old as I am, my lusty limbs appear Like winter greens, that flourish all the year. 1791Cowper Iliad i. 175 A bark with lusty rowers well supplied. 1824Byron Def. Transf. i. i, Though my brothers are So beautiful and lusty. 1876Black Madcap V. vii. 65 But what pathos was there possible to those stalwart young fellows with their lusty throats, their tobacco, and beer and wine? 1884West Sussex Gaz. 25 Sept., [To be sold] 10 prime lusty heifers.
transf.1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. iv. 31 Make lusty the mynde of a Christian souldier. a1677Barrow Serm. Wks. 1716 II. 14 Truth is the natural food of our soul..doth render it lusty, plump and active. 1871Blackie Four Phases i. 33 note, They were..the natural guides of the lusty young democracy. 1880Newman Smyth Old Faiths in New Lt. i. (1882) 19 Much even of our most positive and lusty science is still only in its infancy.
†b. Phrases. Lusty Laurence (cf. laurence): ‘a good wencher’ (Nares). Lusty Juventus: the title of a morality play produced c 1550; often used allusively in 16th c. Obs.
1582Stanyhurst æneis ii. (Arb.) 64 You lustye iuuentus In yeers and carcasse prime. 1594in Arber Stationers' Reg. (1875) II. 309 A ballad intituled Lustye Lawrence. 1594Barnfield Helens Rape Poems (Arb.) 40 Old lad, and bold lad, such a Boy, such a lustie Iuuentus. 1598Marston Metam. Pigmal. etc. Sat. iv. F 1 b, When strong backt Hercules..Rob'd fifty wenches of virginity. Farre more then lusty Laurence. 1613Beaum. & Fl. Captain iv. iii, Lusty Laurence, See what a Gentlewoman you have saluted. a1625Fletcher Woman's Prize i. iii, Well, lusty Laurence, were but my night now, Old as I am, I would make you clap on Spurs, But I would reach you. 1636Dekker Wonder of Kingd. v. i. Wks. 1873 IV. 279 Hee'll proue a lustie Larrence.
c. With reference to vegetable growth. arch.
1600Surflet Country Farm iii. viii. 434 In the spring and March when the trees are in flowers, and beginne to grow lustie. 1660Sharrock Vegetables 128 Thus you will have lusty slips. 1671Grew Anat. Plants i. (1682) 8 The Plume,..growing so lusty, as to mount up without them [the lobes]. 1820Keats Isabella ix, Great happiness Grew, like a lusty flower in June's caress.
†d. Of soil: Fertile, prolific. Obs.
1601Bp. W. Barlow Defence 6 Pregnant natures, are like lustie groundes, these manured by industry, prooue soundly fertile.
†6. Insolent, arrogant, self-confident. Obs.
a1568R. Ascham Scholem. i. (Arb.) 54 To thinke well of him selfe, to be lustie in contemning of others. 1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 5 Purposing..to show a lusti contempt of so silli a frend. 1588J. Harvey Disc. Probl. 46 The great emperor of Turkes..is lately become,..somewhat cranker and lustier, than his accustomed maner was. 1600Holland Livy vi. xxxvi. 242 The Coloners onely of Velitre, upon so long rest and quietnesse began to be lustie and wax wanton [L. gestientes otio]. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. x. §102 When they found it fit to make any lusty Declaration against the Parliament,..they allways inserted somewhat that might look like candour and tenderness towards the King's Party.
†7. Of inanimate agencies (e.g. a fire, wine, poison, a disease): Strong, powerful. Obs.
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 228 The husbandmen sat warming their shanckes by a lustie fire that filled the chimney. 1596Drayton Leg. iii. 21 Many a low Ebbe, many a lustie Tide. 1622Fletcher Beggars Bush iv. iv. Strong lusty London beer. a1647Prol. to Beaum. & Fl.'s Custom Country, They..dranke lusty wine, The nectar of the Muses. a1649Drummond of Hawthornden Conv. betw. B.J. & W.D. Wks. (1711) 224 It was strong and lusty poison. 1683Tryon Way to Health xvi. (1697) 380 The close Rooms, lusty Fires, drawn Curtains, and other torturing Circumstances. 1692Locke Educ. §29 Distempers..which, by too forward applications, might have been made lusty diseases.
†b. Of a ship: Sailing well. Obs.
1660F. Brooke tr. Le Blanc's Trav. 335 In an houre we cast more over-board then was laded in a day; and..immediately we perceiv'd the Vessell to be more lusty. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 155/4 The Paradox..had a sharp dispute with a lusty privateer, who got from him. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. 19 The Chase is a lusty brave Ship.
8. Of actions (esp. those involving physical effort, as a blow, a shout): Vigorous. Of a meal, etc.: ‘Hearty’, abundant.
1672Chaucer's Ghoast 14 He..beheld the lusty Love which each of them to other made. a1682Sir T. Browne Tracts 122 A word drawn from the lusty shout of souldiers. 1710Steele Tatler No. 266 ⁋2 He drunk a lusty Draught. 1779Johnson Let. to Mrs. Thrale 25 Oct., I hope Mr. Thrale once a day makes a lusty dinner. 1797Burke Regic. Peace iii. Wks. VIII. 271 The Turk..gave him two or three lusty kicks on the seat of honour. 1840Thackeray King of Yvetot, And every day it came to pass That four lusty meals made he. 1872Baker Nile Tribut. xi. 177 She gave her a maternal welcome..bestowing lusty blows on her back. 1894Hall Caine Manxman iii. xiv. 175 There was some lusty disputation.
†9. Massive, substantial, large. Obs.
1640Lanc. Lovers in Brand Pop. Antiq. (1849) II. 37 We will haue a lustie Cheese-cake at our sheepe-wash. 1645Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 196 The Arsenal has sufficient to arm 70,000 men,..with divers lusty pieces of ordnance. 1647Lilly Chr. Astrol. lxxvi. 432 Provided alwayes, it be not to hinder themselves from enjoying a lusty Benefice. 1670Eachard Cont. Clergy 127 If ten or twenty of the lustiest noble-mens estates of England were cleaverly sliced among the indigent. 1691Shadwell Scourers i. i, A bottle of Spirit of Canary and a lusty glass. 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xv. 133 Four boys and a little girl sat at a side table where..a lusty loaf was laid under contribution.
¶b. ? Important, striking. ? nonce-use.
1788H. Walpole Let. Earl Strafford 17 June (1846) VI. 292 To have Constantinople taken, merely as a lusty event.
10. Of persons: Massively built. Hence, corpulent, stout, fat.
1772–84Cook Voy. (1790) IV. 1341 He was lusty and well made, though not tall. 1785G. A. Bellamy Apology IV. 5 That lady, playing the character of Arpasia..being very lusty, the scene men found great difficulty to lift the chair into which she had thrown herself. 1792C. Smith Desmond II. 209 Quite a grand looking man, though not lusty, but rather thinnish. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. ii, Being a robust and lusty man, he..found it impossible to get through between the bars. 1839F. A. Kemble Resid. in Georgia (1863) 180, I came upon a gang of lusty women, as the phrase is here for women in the family-way. 1886Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., Lusty..2. Obese; fat.
11. Comb. (parasynthetic), as lusty-handed, † lusty-hued, lusty-limbed, lusty-lunged adjs.
1730–46Thomson Autumn 639 The..heaps Of apples, which the *lusty-handed year,..o'er the blushing orchard shakes.
c1400Rom. Rose 3014 So *lusty hewed of colour.
1897Pullen-Burry Blotted Out 17 Red-nosed *lusty-limbed swains.
1895C. Holland Jap. Wife (ed. 11) 87 Instruments..blown by other equally *lusty-lunged boys.
Hence † ˈlusty n. (Naut.) = hearty n.2
1805Spirit Pub. Jrnls. (1806) IX. 375 Now then, my lusties, for a lug at the bowlines. |