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▪ I. ‖ auster|ɔːstə(r)|
Also 6 austure.
[L.; cf. L. urĕre, ustum, to burn, Gr. αὔειν to dry, kindle.]
The south wind; hence, the south.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. iii. 39 Yif þe cloudy wynde auster blowe felliche. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 354 Throw couetyce culd neuir ȝit be content Of all the Austure and the Orient. c1630Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 38/1 To dry the weeping Auster's tears. 1762–9Falconer Shipwr. ii. 243 Auster's resistless force all air invades.
▪ II. auster
variant of astre, hearth, home. |