fust

Fust

Fust\, n. [OF. fust cask, F. f?t cask, taste or smell of the caak, fustiness, cf. sentir le f?t to taste of the cask. See 1st Fust.] A strong, musty smell; mustiness.

Webster's Revised

Fust

Fust\, v. i. To become moldy; to smell ill. [Obs.]

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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"What is a man,
If his chief good and market of his time
Be but to sleep and feed? A beast, no more.
Sure he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused. Now, whether it be
Bestial oblivion, or some craven scruple
Of thinking too precisely on th' event—
A thought which, quartered, hath but one part wisdom
And ever three parts coward—I do not know
Why yet I live to say "This thing's to do,"
Sith I have cause, and will, and strength, and means
To do 't. Examples gross as earth exhort me:"

-Shakespeare

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