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mustiness|ˈmʌstɪnɪs|
[f. musty a.2 + -ness.]
1. The state, condition or quality of being musty; ‘mould; damp foulness’ (J.).
1526–30in Grose Antiq. Rep. (1808) II. 205 The said page to make fires for the eyres and mustenes of the said chambers. 1664Evelyn Kal. Hort., Oct. (1679) 26 Keeping them [seeds] dry, and free from mustiness. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere vii, The peculiar clean mustiness of the room only just opened for the summer season.
fig.1894Nation (N.Y.) 19 July 47/1 The same impression of mystery, of vagueness, of mediaeval mustiness and superstition is made by these dramas as by the others.
†2. Crossness; ill-humour. Obs. rare.
a1619Fletcher Bonduca i. ii, Any mirth, and any way, of any subject, Junius, is better then unmanly mustinesse. 1734E. Montagu Lett. (1809) I. 14 That he might have put it in his book of drawings among the faces that express the several passions; but he has none that express mustiness. |