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Fust

fəst
Portraits of the fifteenth-century printers Johannes Gutenberg, Johann Fust, Laurens Jansz. Coster, Aldus Manutius and Johann Froben.
Portraits of the fifteenth-century printers Johannes Gutenberg, Johann Fust, Laurens Jansz. Coster, Aldus Manutius and Johann Froben.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Fust
    A strong, musty smell; mustiness.
  2. Fust
    fŭst (Arch) The shaft of a column, or trunk of a pilaster.
  3. Fust
    To become moldy; to smell ill.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) fust
    In architecture, the shaft of a column, or the trunk of a pilaster.
  2. fust
    To be fusty; become moldy; smell ill.
  3. (n) fust
    A strong musty smell.
  4. (n) fust
    Same as foist.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Fust
    fust the shaft of a column.
  2. (v.i) Fust
    See Fusty.
  3. (v.i) Fust
    (Shak.) to grow or smell mouldy
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OF. fust, cask, F. fût, cask, taste or smell of the cask, fustiness, cf. sentir le fût, to taste of the cask. See 1st Fust

Usage in the news

Preserve the past, assure the future': Johann Fust scheduled to open in April, changes in the works. bocabeacon.com

But it wasn't at the Johann Fust Community Library, where she has attended the books since 2002. bocabeacon.com

The final History Bytes presentation of this season was held Wednesday, March 28 at the Johann Fust Community Library. bocabeacon.com

Poet Laureate to speak to Fust audience. bocabeacon.com

The Johann Fust Community Library is honored to offer such an opportunity in Boca Grande. bocabeacon.com

One of the most popular living poets in the United States is coming to Boca Grande for a Johann Fust Community Library benefit. gasparillagazette.com

Poet Laureate to speak to Fust audience. bocabeacon.com

Sissy Yates Designs to be featured Thursday at Johann Fust benefit. bocabeacon.com

From 11 am to 5 pm on Thursday, March 22, The Johann Fust Community Library will host a very special event in the loggia: Sissy Yates Designs will present a jewelry sale as a benefit for the library. bocabeacon.com

Fust renovation to go in front of historic board. bocabeacon.com

Plans for the renovation and rehabilitation of the Johann Fust Library will be discussed at the next Boca Grande Historic Preservation Board meeting on Wednesday, April 11. bocabeacon.com

Baldridge teamed up with fellow Austinite Branson Fustes of Pilgrim Building Company to cover the interior walls with long strips of mahogany veneer that would show off the trailer 's retro curves. dwell.com

Usage in literature

This is the fust time we've druv on this road. "John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein" by Frank R. Stockton

De fust marster dat I 'members wuz Mr. "Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States" by Various

I ain't never thought openly on it fur years, not since ye was fust borned. "Janet of the Dunes" by Harriet T. Comstock

I fust met the gurl at a candy-pullin; an I reccollex well we wur put to eat taffy agin one another. "The War Trail" by Mayne Reid

I was one of the fust into the diggin's after Jim Marshall discivvered color. "Gold Seekers of '49" by Edwin L. Sabin

You mus'n' feel bad ef things don't go yo' way f'om de ve'y fust. "Americans All" by Various

Let me go fust, capten. "In the King's Name" by George Manville Fenn

It was both old and ricketty, but after a short inspection, Blue Dick declared it would do `fust-rate. "The Hunters' Feast" by Mayne Reid

Come, an' say a prayer over little Jack fust. "The Bishop of Cottontown" by John Trotwood Moore

He knows 'em, root and branch; and they are all on 'em jest about as proud as Lucifer, and as consayted as a pullet over her fust egg. "Desk and Debit" by Oliver Optic

Usage in poetry
"Don't you sign in that 'ooker,
Reid's Gulistan;
She's a fust-class looker,
But she kills 'er man."
"To that Fust Lord I'll go
And say you love her dearly."
And JOE said (weeping low),
"I wish you would, sincerely!"
He'd sparked it with full twenty gals,
He'd squired 'em, danced 'em, druv 'em,
Fust this one, an' then thet, by spells—
All is, he couldn't love 'em.
Stuns'ls, mains'ls, all were set --
Heave ho, me hearties!
An' the fust mate sez, "We'll make port yet,
For the seas are smooth, so don't you fret --
Heave ho, me hearties!"
We cleared the 'Eads the fust of October:
It was "All 'ands aft," afore we was sober,
An' "Boys," says 'e, "on board this packet
You'll 'ave to jump or else stand the racket . . . "
She had a fust-class ticket, this lovely lady said,
Because it was so lonesome she took a secknd instead.
Better to travel by secknd class, than sit alone in the fust,
And the pooty little Baby upon her breast she nust.