gustn.1
/ɡʌst/, U.S. /ɡəst/ 1.
a. A sudden violent rush or blast of wind; †formerly often in less restricted sense, a wind-storm, a whirlwind.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > blast or gust of
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Roger's Blasta1825
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Sir Roger1893
1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus v. iii. 68 A flight of fowle, Scatterd by winds and high tempestuous gusts . View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xiii. sig. B3v The stormy gusts of winters day. View more context for this quotation
1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good ii. i. 155 A blacke Gust is comming: vp a-low-there hey: A young-man vp toth Top-mast-head, and looke-out.
1643 J. Howell Parables 15 An Haraucana, that Indian gust.
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. i. 157 A great gust of Wind at N.W. with Rain.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 110 By some easterly gusts the ship was cast away near Berwick.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson iii. v. 334 A sudden gust of wind brought home our anchor.
1766 B. Franklin in Philos. Trans. 1765 (Royal Soc.) 55 187 Hence gusts after heats, and hurricanes in hot climates.
1823 W. Scott Peveril II. viii. 202 The wind..began to rise in gusts from the north-west.
1832 W. Macgillivray Trav. & Researches A. von Humboldt x. 124 The gust accompanied by thunder returned periodically.
1843 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton ii The wind swept in long and moaning gusts along the bleak pier.
1893 Law Times 95 104/2 On the day of the occurrence the wind was somewhat strong, coming in gusts.
b. A burst or gush (of water or rain).
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the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > that which flows > quantity > copious or sudden
gust1610
gushc1682
1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. x. 33 Land-flouds, fatte Riuers and Gusts of water.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis v, in tr. Virgil Wks. 328 What Gusts of Weather from that gath'ring Cloud.
1799 S. T. Coleridge Lines in Concert Room in Morning Post 24 Sept. The gust pelting on the out-house shed, Makes the cock shrilly in the rain-storm crow.
1841 G. P. R. James Brigand ii The heavy rain dashed in gusts against the clattering casements.
1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood ii. 4 The giant elm-trees as they shed a gust of tears.
c. A burst (of fire), a puff (of smoke); a burst (of sound).
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > fire or flame > [noun] > flame or blaze > sudden burst of
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flare1888
the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > smoke > a puff of
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gust1811
pufflet1848
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waft1896
1674 tr. P. M. de la Martinière New Voy. Northern Countries 136 To see..new gusts of Fire and Ashes break out.
1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 552 Gusts of smoke..escape.
1849 D. G. Mitchell Battle Summer (1852) 269 His words come to distant quarters of the hall only in feeble gusts of sound.
1894 H. Caine Manxman iii. xi. 166 The voice of Pete came in gusts through the floor.
2. figurative. Chiefly with conscious reference to the literal sense and retention of literal language; also gen., a burst, outbreak, outburst.
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the mind > emotion > passion > [noun] > sudden outburst or access of passion
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estuation1605
gare1606
accession?1608
vehemency1612
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flush1614
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outflame1889
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xvii. 675/1 The brute of which gust blowne into stout Warwickes eare.
1639 G. Daniel Ecclus. xii. 16 The gust of Sin, may Stir a Surly tiding, In Seas pacificke.
1681 J. Flavell Method of Grace xxviii. 486 O remember what a meer feather thou art in the gusts of Temptation.
a1704 T. Brown Beauties to Armida in Wks. (1707) I. i. 65 Gusts of Pleasure hurry thro' my Veins.
1705 D. Defoe Double Welcome 8 You fly On Gusts of Hope, and Wings of Victory.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 249 A gust of grief began to rise.
1783 E. Burke Speech Fox's E. India Bill in Wks. (1815) IV. 77 When the first little sudden gust of passion against these gentlemen was spent.
1789 F. Burney Diary 3 Aug. (1842) V. 45 They..were received with the most violent gusts of joy and huzzas.
1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. iii, in Poems 131 How and from whence these Gusts of Grace will blow.
1852 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. xviii. 235 Tossed by a thousand gusts of unholy passion.
Compounds
General attributive. C1. (In sense 1.)
gust alleviator n.
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1947 Shell Aviation News cxii. 20/3 ‘Gust alleviators’ as fitted to certain new British aircraft will provide some protection to passengers but even assuming these can relieve 50% of the gust effect, they will still only provide the same ‘ride comfort’ at 320 m.p.h. as one now gets in the D.C.3 at 160 m.p.h.
gust effect n.
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1919 A. Klemin Text-bk. Aeronaut. Engin. xix. 234 It is also clear from the above that the gust effects are most important, when the speed of the machine is lowest.
gust load n.
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1955 Sci. News Let. 1 Jan. 9/2 The accumulated effects of repeated, but mostly moderate, structural loads—normally gust loads—could sometimes cause failures of the primary structure before the airplane attains a reasonable service life.
1959 J. L. Nayler Dict. Aeronaut. Engin. 125 Gust loads, the loads on an aircraft structure due to gusts.
gust recorder n.
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1955 Sci. News Let. 24 Sept. 197/1 Fifty gust recorders.
gust response n.
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1965 Economist 20 Feb. 733/2 This aircraft now has to have very low gust response to keep the crew functioning.
gust spectrum n.
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1935 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 39 372 It seemed..that if the gust spectra were extended to include the short period changes, some very large ordinates would be added to the curves.
gust tunnel n.
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1939 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 43 784 To assist in answering these questions an apparatus, known as the ‘gust tunnel’ has been developed, in which it is possible to determine experimentally the reaction of suitably scaled dynamic models in controlled artificial gusts.
C2.
gust-flying n.
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1922 Flight 14 659/2 At any rate, the mere trying should teach us quite a lot about air currents around hills, quite apart from the, as yet untouched, problem of real ‘gust-flying’, in which sudden changes in velocity of the wind itself are made use of.
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gust-moved adj.
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1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 111 The waving of her gust-moved hair.
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gust front n. Meteorology a boundary between a region of gusty winds and the surrounding air; spec. the leading edge of the region of cool, gusty surface winds produced by thunderstorm downdraughts, typically associated with a sudden change in pressure and temperature drop; cf. outflow boundary n. at outflow n. and adj. Compounds.
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1933 Q. Jrnl. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 59 370 The structure of gust fronts is more clearly marked in the free air than within 50ft. of the surface.
1983 Pop. Sci. May 80/2 It was generally assumed that a gust front had brought the plane down.
2008 Roanoke (Virginia) Times (Nexis) 11 July b1 Wednesday's storm may have involved both microbursts and a gust front.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
gustn.2
/ɡʌst/, U.S. /ɡəst/ Now archaic.
= taste n.1, in various senses.in extended use.1696 T. Southerne Oroonoko ii. iii Such sweets, as best can entertain The gust of all the senses.1893 W. Watson Excurs. in Crit. 22 If any reader is so unfortunate as to find that a prolonged familiarity with Shakespeare begets at last a somewhat blunted sensibility to the master's supreme power, a remedy is at hand by which his palate may recover its gust.† 2. Individual taste, liking, or inclination. Obsolete.† 3. Æsthetic or artistic taste, sense, or perception. Obsolete. rare.† 5. Liking felt by others for oneself; favour. Obsolete. rare.† 7. A taste, an experience of something; also, a foretaste. Obsolete.
1. The sense or faculty of taste; †occasionally an act of tasting or of satisfying the appetite.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun] > sense of taste
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c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xli. 157 What thing, quod j, is guste? It is that, quod she, bi whiche passeth al that j swelwe.
1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 297 The fruit is somewhat unpleasant at first gust.
1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Job (1648) 10 Oh can unseas'ned cates the gust invite?
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xiv. 367 Aristotle.. accuseth Philoxenus of sensuality, for the greater pleasure of gust desiring the neck of a Crane. View more context for this quotation
1670 J. Beale in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1156 We call in the Testimony of the Gust..to prove the asperous..Particles in some Liquors.
1673 J. Dryden Assignation iii. iii. 37 I hate to snatch a morsel of Love, and so away; I am for a set-meal, where I may enjoy my full gust.
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the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > fact of being to one's taste > taste (for something)
savour?c1225
toothc1386
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taste1477
relish1590
gust1609
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1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxiv. sig. G4v Mine eie well knowes what with his gust is greeing. View more context for this quotation
a1663 R. Sanderson Pref. Ussher's Power Princes (1683) 7 Condited to the gust and palate of the Publisher.
1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity 223 Types or Parables accommodate to the Conceit and Gust of the Vulgar.
1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. x. 526 This resolution was not for the gust of the Court.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses II. 581 He preached..before the Commons, but..little to their gust and liking.
1707 in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (O.H.S.) II. 46 'Tis with great satisfaction I learn yt ye Icon of ye Shield was so much to ye Gust of a Gentleman of your Learning.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 132 My very Desires alter'd, my Affections chang'd their Gusts.
1732 Gentleman's Mag. 2 965 Beauty may win the Eye, and satisfy the present Gust or Appetite.
1733 A. Pope Ess. Man i. 123 Destroy all Creatures for thy sport or gust, Yet thou unhappy, think 'tis He's unjust.
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the mind > attention and judgement > good taste > [noun]
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epicurism1655
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fancyc1665
sapience1667
taste1671
curiositya1684
niceness1698
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sensibility1735
connoissance1736
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theoria1846
shibui1960
1706 J. Savage tr. R. de Piles Art of Painting 378 He had a good Gust in Designing.
1715 M. Davies Εἰκων Μικρο-βιβλικὴ 14 All who have the least Tincture or Gust in Solid Erudition.
1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 161 Dedicated to him who is said to have had the best tast and most gust in such old Church-Collects.
4.
a. Keen relish, appreciation, or enjoyment, esp. as displayed in speech or action.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [noun]
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exhilaration1626
gusto1629
gust1635
warmth1749
zest1758
1635 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Donzella Desterrada 160 Wherein [sc. reading] she consumed her houres with a gust that exceeded her age and sex.
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant i. v. 102 Let no man judge..of the prosperitie..of his service in this ministerie by any sensible relish, by the gust and deliciousness which he sometimes perceives.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 565 They fondly thinking to allay Thir appetite with gust, instead of Fruit Chewd bitter Ashes. View more context for this quotation
1693 J. Dryden tr. Juvenal in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires vi. 92 Such Lust Their Kisses have, and come with such a Gust.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 168 In this Gust of their greedy Appetite, they considered not where they were.
1734 I. Watts Reliquiæ Juveniles (1789) 111 O the shameful gust and relish that some people find in reproach and slander!
1780 W. Cowper Table Talk 240 He drinks his simple beverage with a gust.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1776 II. 45 Johnson: A woman who gets the command of money for the first time upon her marriage, has such a gust in spending it, that she throws it away with great profusion.
1817 C. Lamb Let. 12 May in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 245 How could you expect her To take much gust In long speeches With her tongue as dry as dust?
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xi. 285 The more pampered burgess and guild-brother was eating his morsel with gust.
1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin II. x. 183 He tasted the sweets of companionship with more gust than he had yet done.
1869 F. W. Newman Misc. 282 Michelet, who sees England in Carthage, reviles her with great gust.
b. Const. of, for, occasionally to, after, in, esp. in to have a gust of: to have a liking or relish for, or keen appreciation of.
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the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > [verb (transitive)] > enter into enjoyment of > enjoy or revel in
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to have, take felicity in or to1542
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to take out1609
to have a gust of1658
1658 Jer. Taylor in Evelyn's Mem. (1857) III. 105 I perceive your relish and gust of the things of the world goes off continually.
1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall Pref. 17 If you have a true gust for the Book you read.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 251 When..the gust of pleasure which help'd him to mispend his youth, through time and Langui'd Age shall blunted be and dull?
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 26 There are others..that have no gust in this sort of pleasure.
1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 188 It takes away the desire, gust or lust after them.
1702 Eng. Theophrastus 312 There's a gust of liberty in the following of a man's humours.
1708 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1886) II. 120 A great obstructer of real Learning, and no true friend to any that have a gust for it.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 32 I had no Gust to Antiquities.
1769 J. Wallis Nat. Hist. Northumberland I. Pref. 8 Such as have a gust for anything Roman.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1777 II. 159 Johnson: Why, Sir, I never knew any one who had such a gust for London as you have.
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the mind > emotion > love > liking or favourable regard > [noun] > felt by others for oneself
gust1655
1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 65 Ambitious by some meritorious service to earn a better gust, or correct the universal odium against him.
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a. Savour or flavour (of food, etc.).
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun]
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savour?c1225
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tangc1440
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tallage14..
sapor1477
verdurea1513
verdour1526
relish1530
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gustc1540
waft1542
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tack1602
tache1607
tincture1610
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gusto1713
goût1751
saporosity1794
gustativeness1827
savouring1840
sipidity1880
palate1973
c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Bvj In this crag growis ane rycht delicius herbe, & quhen it is transportit..it is of lytill sapor or gust.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 210 Like a draught of pleasant poyson, the gust is gone.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ vii. 105 Fruit..Grafted on Stockes of another contrary nature, much debaseth the Gust of the Fruit.
1699 J. Evelyn Acetaria 4 Herbs..eaten with..Oyl, Salt, &c. to give them a grateful Gust and Vehicle.
1743 W. Ellis London & Country Brewer (ed. 2) II. 101 That smooth Gust and pleasant Taste to the Palate, which, after a proper Age in the Malt-liquor, every Drinker enjoys both in Mouth and Body.
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 471/2 The whole vegetable tribe have lost their gust with me. Only I stick to asparagus.
1854 C. Patmore Betrothal vi, in Angel in House I. 93 Ever her chaste and noble air Gave to love's feast its choicest gust.
b. Pleasing taste or gratifying flavour; relish (as of something eaten or drunk).
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > savouriness > [noun] > relish
smack1573
relish1599
gust1649
hogo1653
zest1704
zing1956
1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar ii. 96 When we long for Manna and follow Christ for loaves, not of a low and terrestrial gust, but of that bread which came down from heaven.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures vi. 16 [He] sware..never to eat either fruit, salt, or any other thing, that might bring the least gust to his palate.
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) iv. viii. 375 Sensual Goods have their proper gust and relish with him.
1679 W. Penn Addr. Protestants i. 18 'Tis the Taste, the Gust, the Relish, that makes the Victuals go down.
a1680 J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) i. 50 That things of gust and relish must be judg'd by the sentient and vital faculties.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. I. 11 This discussion is not yet obsolete, and it may still offer all the gust of novelty.
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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > knowledge, what is known > experience > [noun] > a taste or experience of
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1658 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 2nd Pt. 439 The Spirit, who is sent from Heaven to..give them some sweet gust of it, by shedding abroad the sense of it in their souls.
1672 Mede's Life in Wks. 25 A Gust of the powers of the world to come.
1675 H. Neville tr. N. Machiavelli Prince vii, in tr. N. Machiavelli Wks. 208 By giving them a gust of their future felicity.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Christian Morals (1716) iii. 110 In seventy or eighty years a Man may have a deep Gust of the World.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 69 Happy..those, and only those, brought hither in their Nonage, before they have a Gust of our Albion.
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gustv.1
/ɡʌst/, U.S. /ɡəst/, Scottish English /ɡʌst/ Now only Scottish.
1. transitive. To taste; to relish. Also absol. (or intransitive).
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [verb (transitive)] > taste so as to appreciate
attastec1374
tastea1400
gustc1430
degustate1599
degust1623
smack1822
c1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode (1869) iii. xli. 157 As michel or more as þe guste may gusten.
a1500 Ratis Raving ii. 40 [Wisdom is] swetar..and of mare lust Than erdly thing that man may gust.
c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. Cij Ane beist or fowll, that hes nocht gustit of this meit.
1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. A.4 Hauing anis gustit how gude fisching it is in drumly watteris.
1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 150 The taisters of aill..are not reddie to taist or guste the aill, sa oft as the browsters hes tunned it.
1631 S. Jerome Arraignem. Whole Creature i. 2 The hungry soule sweetly gusts againe the same Spirituall cates, as did sometimes the hearers of Saint Peter.
1647 R. L'Estrange Pref. Poems in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. sig. c The Palate of this age gusts nothing High.
a1657 R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 189 That so many judicious palats should gust a piece so insipid.
2. to gust the mouth, or the gab: to give a relish to the palate. Scottish.
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the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [verb (transitive)] > give relish
to gust the mouth, or the gab?a1500
tasten1579
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Two Mice l. 287 in Poems (1981) 15 Ane quhyte candill..In steid off spyce, to gust thair mouth withall.
1773 R. Fergusson Poems 110 He's no ill boden That gusts his gabb wi' oyster sauce.
a1801 R. Gall Elegy Pudding Lizzie in Wks. 181 She had the knack sae weel, To gust the gab o' ony chiel.
1858 M. Porteous Real Souter Johnny (ed. 2) 13 He..took care..to..fill the jinglin' stoups wi' mair To gust their mou'.
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gustv.2
/ɡʌst/, U.S. /ɡəst/ intransitive. to gust up: to rise in gusts or bursts; also without up, to blow in gusts. Also figurative.
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the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > emerge or present itself
to come in (also to, on, etc.) placec1225
astart1393
becomea1400
emerge1570
bubble1578
to flower off1644
steal1798
to gust up1813
to crop up1844
outcrop1856
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > in bursts
to gust up1813
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow fitfully > in gusts
wapc1400
thud1513
flaw1806
to gust up1813
tuck1833
huffle1862
1813 S. T. Coleridge Lett. (1895) 608 The Pride, like the bottom-swell of our lake, gusts up again.
1899 J. M. Falkner Moonfleet (ed. 3) xi The wind came gusting round the corner.
1927 Chambers's Jrnl. 312/2 The wind was gusting.
1960 I. Shaw Two Weeks in Another Town v. 77 Jack..remembered what Delaney had looked like gusting into the dressing-room.
1963 Times 13 May 4/4 An exciting final, fought out in winds that gusted to more than 30 knots.
1964 N. Freeling Double-barrel v. 146 An erratic wind..gusted at me from all quarters.
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