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▪ I. † ˈbusking, vbl. n.1 Sc. Obs.
[f. busk v.1 + -ing1.]
1. Fitting out, attiring; concr. attire.
c1320Sir Tristr. 92 Bliþe was his bosking. 1619Z. Boyd Last Battell 961 (Jam.) Too curious busking is the mother of lusting lookes. 1632Rutherford Lett. xxiii. (1862) I. 90 The wooer's busking and bravery..are in vain. 1638Relat. Accidents in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) IV. 289 Some [had]..their outward buskings not one thread singed.
fig.1637Rutherford Letters 70 Godliness is more than the outside and this world's passments and their buskings.
†b. spec. The dressing of the head; head-dress.
1571R. Ascham Scholem. (Arb.) 54 Either a slouinglie busking, or an ouerstaring frounced hed. 1621Sc. Act. Jas. VI, xxv. §3 That none weare upon their Heads, or Buskings, any Feathers.
†2. Setting out, departure. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 3245 Bun was he made til his buskyng, Wit tresur grette and riche ring.
▪ II. ˈbusking, vbl. n.2
[f. busk v.2]
‘Piratical cruising; also, used generally, for beating to windward along a coast, or cruising off and on’ (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk.). Also fig. (see quot.).
1841Fraser's Mag. XXIII. 310 This practice..for which they had a technical term of reproach, viz. ‘going a-busking’. [The practice was to pawn property not his own, shift his quarters and disappear.]
▪ III. busking, vbl. n. and ppl. a.
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