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† buste, bust Obs.
Also 4 Sc. bouste.
[var. of boist n.]
A box, esp. for containing ointments, drugs, confectionery, etc. Cf. boist, boost, buist.
a1225Ancr. R. 226 He haueð so monie bustes ful of his letuaries. c1375? Barbour St. Magdalena 111 A bouste of precius vngument. c1450Henryson Mor. Fab. 30 Out of his buste ane bill can hee braid. 1483Cath. Angl. 49/1 A Buyste [v.r. Bust]. 1566Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 264 The Lord James..had (by all appearance) lyked of the same bust that dispatched the rest. |