† lastingn.1
Obsolete.
A kind of toll apparently paid for permission to load a ship; (also) the right to collect this toll; = lastage n. 1.References to lasting as a customary payment are found in purported Latin charters of Edward the Confessor and William I, forged in the first half of the 12th cent. (compare quots. lOE1, lOE2); the occurrence of the term in these charters may well be anachronistic.In later use in Anglo-Norman legal glossaries apparently misinterpreted as ‘the right to load a ship’.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > shipping dues > [noun]
lastinglOE
lastage1205
anchorage1405
strandage1419
plankage1424
quayage1440
lowage1457
measurage1460
perch money1466
perching1483
keel-toll?1499
wharf-gelt1505
sand-gelt1527
wharfage1535
soundage1562
towage1562
groundage1567
bankage1587
rowage1589
shore-silver1589
pilotage1591
dayage1592
ballastage1594
rivage1598
pieragec1599
shore-mail1603
lightage1606
shorage1611
port charge1638
light money1663
port due1663
water-bailage1669
mensuragea1676
mooragea1676
keelage1679
shore-due1692
harbour-due1718
lockage1722
magazinage1736
jettage?1737
light duty1752
tide-duty1769
port duty1776
dockage1788
light due1793
canalage1812
posting-dues1838
warpage1863
winch1864
postage1868
flag-dues1892
berthage1893
shore-levy-
lOE Royal Charter: Edward the Confessor to Westminster Abbey (Sawyer 1041) in D. Wilkins Concilia Magnae Britannia et Hiberniae (1737) I. 321 Huic libertati concedo additamentum, in qua, ut ab omnibus apertius et plenius intelligatur, nomina consuetudinum Anglice præcepi ponere. Scilicet mundbryce, burhbryce, miskænninge, sceawinge, hlæstinge, friþsocne, flymenafyrmþe, [etc.].
lOE Royal Charter: William I to Westminster Abbey in D. Bates Regesta Regum Anglo-Normannorum (1998) 880 Relaxo igitur et concedo eis..flemenefurmthe, mischennynge, scauuinge, hlastynge, [etc.].
1199 in H. C. Maxwell-Lyte Cal. Charter Rolls (1903) I. 425 Concedimus etiam eidem ecclesie..thol et theam..lasting, fridsoken, flemenefyrmid..et omnes alias leges et consuetudines.
?1241 in 9th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. 1 (1883) App. 60/1 in Parl. Papers (C. 3773) XXXVII. 1 Lestinge, charger la hou lum vodera. Gallice vocatur lestgate.
c1325 in H. T. Riley Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis (1862) III. 453 (MED) Lestynge, Charger la ou lem voudra, Gallice vocatur lestange [read lestage].
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† lastingn.2
Obsolete.
Abuse, blame, reproach.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > reproach > [noun]
edwitc825
onsawOE
teenOE
upbrixlec1175
lasting?c1225
upbrud?c1225
upbraidc1275
upbraidingc1275
upbraidinga1300
umbraidc1330
atwiting1340
reprocec1350
reprocingc1350
reprucec1350
again-chidinga1382
brixlinga1400
reproachc1405
edwitinga1425
rebukec1454
forwitting1481
improperation1502
outbraiding1509
exprobration1526
checking1535
impropery1542
reproaching1542
braiding1552
improbation1556
taunting1563
twitting1565
upbraying1585
reproachmentc1592
umbraiding1597
monishment1896
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 157 Þurch mare lastunge wrencheð hit to wurse.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 54 For ha huntet efter Pris & kechet lastunge.
?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 270 (MED) A þef is more worþi to be suffrid þan þe lastynge of a lesyngmongere.
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lastingn.3
/ˈlɑːstɪŋ/, /ˈlastɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlæstɪŋ/ 1. The action of last v.1; the fact of continuing or surviving; continuance, duration, permanence.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > lasting quality, permanence > [noun] > continuance, duration
arrestc1386
continuance1393
tenor1398
lasta1400
lastinga1400
abiding?a1425
demur1533
remanence1558
subsistence1600
continualness1611
incessancy?1615
continuancy1621
uncessantness1627
mansion1637
subsistency1642
remanency1647
unintermissiveness1651
indesinency1657
continuation1664
unintermission1681
incessantness1727
unceasingness1727
unintermittingness1866
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 19562 In lasting of cristen mannis life.
a1450 (?1348) R. Rolle Form of Living (Cambr.) in Eng. Writings (1931) 116 (MED) Strengh es lastyng to fulfill gude purpose.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 283 Thai had bath bot schort lesting, For thai deit soyn eftir syne.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 108 After þe quantyte of þy tresour is þe lastyng and þe defens, of þy kyngdom.
1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Longue durée, of long during or lasting.
1597 F. Bacon Ess. f. 9 To be free minded, and chearefully disposed at howers of meate, and of sleepe, and of exercise, is the best precept of long lasting.
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne ii. v, in Wks. I. 549 Thou art made for euer,..if this felicitie haue lasting . View more context for this quotation
1669 W. Aglionby tr. G. Leti Il Nipotismo di Roma ii. i. 15 Who will take the pains to contribute to the lasting of any Empire, but he that has the greatest share in the enjoyments of it?
1715 N. Dubois & G. Leoni tr. A. Palladio Architecture I. xxv. 44 To prevent the Doors and Windows from being press'd with too much weight..is of no little importance for the lasting of the Building.
1780 E. Malone Suppl. Shakespeare's Plays I. 297 How long these lovers thought the lasting of the day.
1814 Examiner 9 Oct. 641/1 This poor country is in a deplorable state—a ruined Noblesse—a famished Clergy—..the military spirit divided—the most opposite opinions as to the lasting of the present form of things.
1888 Electr. Rev. 27 Apr. 458/1 The probability of their [sc. accumulators'] lasting is far greater than some people imagine, if the cells are properly looked after.
1914 H. Münsterberg Psychology 109 The direct after-image depends upon peripheral processes and not upon the lasting of the central excitement.
1995 M. Barker & R. Sabin (title) The lasting of the Mohicans: history of an American myth.
2. Ability to withstand wear, pressure, or damage; durability. Also: power of holding on or out, staying power (= last n.5 2). Now usually more fully lasting power.Quot. 1715 at sense 1 approaches this sense.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > will > decision > perseverance or persistence > [noun] > staying power
lastingnessa1398
unweariness1611
unweariednessa1617
last1622
indefatigationa1646
unweariableness1647
unwearisomeness1649
indefatigability1651
indefatigableness1653
infatigability1709
lasting1762
stamina1803
unweariability1853
staying qualities1856
stickability1858
staying power1859
sitzfleisch1877
bounceback1959
1762 A. Dickson Treat. Agric. ii. x. 206 The lasting of the iron plough, and the value of the iron.
1807 Statist. Acct. Schuylkill Permanent Bridge 56 Some hemlock is very durable; but the appearance of this wood, is so generally alike, that it is imprudent to risque the chances of hitting on the kind required for lasting, or strength.
1853 Farmer's Mag. Nov. 41/1 The modern race-horse is in hand as a yearling; and his preparation alone is what few of our ancient masters would have dreamt of. ‘But still he has lost the lasting power.’
1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 II. 346 Essentials to develope a man in stature, or strength, or ‘lasting’.
1883 C. P. Smyth Gaseous Spectra in Vacuum Tubes in Trans. Royal Soc. Edinb. 30 100 As to the general lasting power of the tubes themselves,..not more than one tube in twenty has failed, broken, or become dead.
1907 Ice & Refrigeration Apr. 245/2 When it comes to the lasting or durability of the cans, say in a 200-pound can, it will outlast the larger sizes three or four times.
1915 Steel & Iron (Pittsburgh) 15 June 647/2 The effect of the climate may be to destroy its lasting power.
1948 E. Burdick in Stanford Short Stories 1948 32 I had a lot of lasting power, a lot of stamina.
2007 A. K. Nayak Sports Educ. i. 64 The male is functionally endowed with lasting power to a much greater degree than the average woman.
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lastingn.4
/ˈlɑːstɪŋ/, /ˈlastɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlæstɪŋ/ The action of shaping a boot or shoe on a last.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making footwear > [noun] > processes involved in > shaping
blockinga1877
lasting1880
treeing1884
1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 92 My Lasts..and my lasting Sticks.
1838 J. Devlin in Mechanics' Mag. 29 Dec. 218/2 The French maker.., in the entire lasting of his boot, neglects no pains.
1880 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 830/2 Lasting is a crucial operation, for, unless the upper is drawn smoothly and equally over the last, leaving neither crease nor wrinkle, the form of the boot will be bad.
1907 Westm. Gaz. 4 Nov. 8/4 This method of ‘lasting’ is new.
1968 J. Ironside Fashion Alphabet 126 The lasting, i.e. the making of the upper on the last.
1992 M. Baren How it all Began 27/1 By 1880 the only [shoe manufacturing] process not to have been mechanised was the lasting.
Compounds
General attributive in the sense ‘used in the process of lasting’, as lasting jack, lasting machine, lasting pincers, etc.
ΚΠ
1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 92 My Lasts..and my lasting Sticks.
1846 S. Hart U.S. Patent 4587 (title) Lasting Machine.
1857 Sci. Amer. 24 Oct. 50/3 Lasting Pincers—B. F. Sturtevant, of Skowhegan, Me., (assignor to Elmer Townsend, of Boston, Mass.): I claim the described compound pincers for lasting boots.
1868 U.S. Patent 69,395 in Ann. Rep. Commissioner Patents 1867 I. 46 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (40th Congr., 2nd Sess.: House of Representatives Executive Doc. No. 96) X Lasting awl.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1258/2 Lasting-jack, an implement to hold the last while straining and securing the upper thereon.
1895 Daily News 13 Mar. 3/2 A magnetic lasting machine which takes up the tacks and presses them into a boot when it is on the last.
1941 S. H. Slichter Union Policies & Industr. Managem. vii. 210 The old Lasters' Protective Union attempted to keep out the lasting machine by striking against its use.
1965 E. Tunis Colonial Craftsmen iv. 107/2 With his last upside down on the lasting jack, the shoemaker stretched the upper over it with special pincers.
2002 Voice 4 Nov. 12/3 Matzeliger's lasting machine produced shoes faster than the hands of skilled shoe craftsmen.
2003 J. Swann Shoemaking 19/2 (caption) A pulling-over machine in the factory of J. Sears and Company, Northampton, between 1903 and 1913. It replaced the lasting pincers.
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lastingn.5
/ˈlɑːstɪŋ/, /ˈlastɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlæstɪŋ/ Now historical.
A durable kind of cloth; spec. a strong worsted fabric formerly used for clothing and for the uppers of shoes (more fully lasting cloth). Cf. everlasting n. 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from wool > [noun] > stout or durable > everlasting
durance1583
everlasting1738
lasting1748
durant1766
1748 Gen. Advertiser 9 June Lastings, Shalloons, Fustians, Cottons, &c.
1782 T. Pennant Journey Chester to London 141 The making and sale of shags, camblets, lastings, tammies, &c.
1830 D. Booth Analyt. Dict. Eng. Lang. 184 Lasting, or everlasting, is a stout closely-woven worsted stuff, dyed black and other colours, and much used for ladies' shoes.
1844 G. Dodd Textile Manuf. Great Brit. iv. 113 3–4 Lastings, 3–4 Fancy Lastings.
1856 M. Reid Quadroon II. xx. 196 The chaussure consisted of gaiter-bootees of drab lasting-cloth.
1876 G. E. Voyle Mil. Dict. (ed. 3) 219/1 Lasting Cloth, a material similar to prunella cloth, only thicker, which is used for the clothing of mill-men in powder houses. It has the property of not readily catching fire.
1878 A. Barlow Hist. & Princ. Weaving 440 Lastings, a strong cloth used for ladies' boots and made of hard twisted yarn.
1895 Strand Mag. Mar. 311 The man is clothed in a suit of ‘lasting’—that curious leathery material affected by the London apprentices in the days of Queen Elizabeth.
1916 Corset & Underwear Rev. May 13 (advt.) Made of fancy striped lasting cloth with polka dot in white.
1993 D. L. Ransel tr. O. S. Tian-Shanskaia Village Life in Late Tsarist Russia iv. 56 On holidays, the men..wear cotton shirts, trousers of lasting cloth, [etc.].
2000 D. A. Farnie & T. Abe in D. A. Farnie et al. Region & Strategy in Brit. & Japan iv. 138 After the war Japan crowned its victory by surpassing Britain in the supply of lastings from 1918, of Italians from 1924 and of sateens from 1925.
Compounds
General attributive, in the sense ‘made of lasting’, esp. ‘(having uppers) made of lasting’, as lasting boots, lasting shoes, etc.
ΚΠ
1760 G. Lansing Let. 19 May in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) II. 666 1 piece broad black Lastring [sic] Ribband.
1768 G. Wythe Let. 9 May in F. Mason John Norton & Sons (1968) 51 Be pleased to send me..one pair of satin and five pair of callimancho or lasting shoes with full heels.
1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. IV. xii. 103 Numbers of them, on occasions, dress in ribbons, printed cottons, white stockings and lasting shoes.
1833 Doc. Manufactures U.S. (House of Representatives) I. 281/2 (table) Gentleman's pumps 700 Ladies' lasting shoes 700.
1859 Ladies' Home Mag. (Philadelphia) July 47/1 Amber, lilac, or drab kid gloves. Lasting boots.
1893 Harper's New Monthly Mag. June 120/1 Seeing John P. smoking, with Hozea's slippers on, Jehu had to have a pipe and a pair of lasting shoes.
1928 A. G. Chater tr. H. Bang Ida Brandt 7 Dessau's loft, where you had to wade through the corn, you in your lasting boots.
1960 C. W. Cunnington et al. Dict. Eng. Costume 125/1 Lasting boots. Late 19th c. Boots of which the uppers were made of black cashmere.
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lastingadj.
/ˈlɑːstɪŋ/, /ˈlastɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈlæstɪŋ/ 1. Continuing, enduring; (also) of long continuance, permanent. In early use also (contextually): †everlasting, endless, eternal. †always lasting: lasting for ever; cf. ay-lasting adj. See also long-lasting adj. age-, never-, short-, time-, world-lasting: see the first element.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring
longeOE
longsomeeOE
long of lifeOE
lastinga1225
cleaving1340
continualc1340
dwellingc1380
long-livinga1382
everlastingc1384
long-duringa1387
long-lasting?a1400
long-liveda1400
broadc1400
permanable?c1422
perseverant?a1425
permanentc1425
perdurable?a1439
continuedc1440
abiding1448
unremoved1455
eternalc1460
long-continued1464
continuing1526
long-enduring1527
enduring1532
immortal1538
diuturn?1541
veterated1547
resiant?1567
stayinga1568
well-wearinga1568
substantive1575
pertinacious1578
extant1581
ceaseless1590
marble1596
of length1597
longeval1598
diuturnal1599
nine-lived1600
chronic1601
unexhausted1602
chronical1604
endurable1607
continuant1610
indeflourishing1610
aged1611
indurant1611
continuatea1616
perennious1628
seculara1631
undiscontinueda1631
continuated1632
untransitory1632
long-spun1633
momently1641
stative1643
outliving1645
constant1653
long-descended1660
voluminousa1661
perduring1664
perdurant1671
livelong1673
perennial1676
longeve1678
consequential1681
unquenched1703
lifelong1746
momentary1755
inveterate1780
stabile1797
persistent1826
unpassing1831
all-time1846
year-long1846
teak-built1847
lengthful1855
long-term1867
long haul1873
sticky1879
week-to-week1879
perenduring1883
long-range1885
longish1889
long-time1902
long run1904
long-life1915
the world > time > duration > eternity or infinite duration > [adjective]
echec825
echelichc825
endlessc888
lastinga1225
everlastingc1225
perdurablec1275
perpetuala1325
unendeda1325
incorruptiblea1340
ay-lastingc1340
inlastingc1340
eternec1366
interminablec1374
unstanchablec1374
ever-duringa1382
eternalc1386
sempitern1390
never-failinga1400
sempiternal14..
ever-being?a1425
ever-durable?a1425
immarcescible?a1475
perennal?c1500
deathless1547
everlastable1548
incessant1557
unperishing1561
undeterminable1581
evera1586
unendlya1586
inexterminable1592
never-ending?1592
aeviternal1596
dateless1597
undecaying1599
entombless1601
perishless1605
ageless1609
continual1610
perpetuous1612
imperible1614
ne'er-endinga1616
out-date1623
undated1624
perennious1628
immortal1630
imperishable1648
birthless1651
fadeless1652
sempiternous1653
evergreen1655
intemporal1656
indefectible1659
inconclusible1660
unending1661
aeonian1664
unfading1665
sempervirent1668
amaranthal1674
ne'er-dying1693
perennial1717
timeless1742
indefeatablea1754
amaranthine1782
aeonial1800
unterminating1821
unevanescent1827
ay1845
forever1879
sempervirid1909
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 159 Hwiche mede sculen ho fo..? Salutem eternam, lucem perpetuam, vitam sempiternam eche hele, lestende liht, and endeles lif.
1258 Proclam. Henry III in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1868–9) 21 We willen þæt þis beo stedefæst and lestinde.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xx. 620 God..Bryng ws hye vp till hevynnis blis, Quhar all-wayis lestand liking is.
1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 328 Fall on kneis doun Befoir the king of lestand lyfe and lycht.
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. xxiii. sig. Xx1v The strongest buildings, and lastingest monarchies are subiect to end.
1604 B. Jonson His Pt. Royall Entertainem. 763 That did auspicate So lasting glory to Augustus state.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xvii. 87 Somwhat else required to make their Agreement constant and lasting.
1682 Sir T. Browne Let. in Wks. (1836) I. 346 Retarded by the lasting south-west wind.
1738 G. Lillo Marina iii. ii. 47 The lasting'st peace is death.
1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xii. 346 A lasting deliverance from the inroads of the Scythian nations.
1809 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 21 312 It is not..from a vast variety of external applications..that we are to expect lasting or even temporary benefit.
1841 S. Mullen Cottager's Sabbath iii. xliii. 98 He talked of love, of faithful, lasting love.
1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) V. 363 All these things are only lasting when they depend upon one another.
1927 Times 15 Dec. 18/4 The film can leave no more lasting impression than that of the sickly presumptuousness of its author.
1960 D. Rivera & G. March My Art, My Life 85 The effect of these efforts did not prove lasting.
2011 Daily Tel. 22 Sept. 24/5 Borrowing to spend can certainly support demand in the short term, but..it cannot provide a lasting basis for a strong and stable economy.
2.
a. Of a material substance: durable, hard-wearing; (also) having an enduring effect.See also lasting cloth at lasting n.5
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > staying fresh or lasting
lastinga1375
the world > matter > constitution of matter > strength > [adjective] > durable
lastinga1375
durable1398
perdurable?a1425
during1601
hard-wearing1850
heavy-duty1914
service weight1919
a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 1736 [She] laced wel eche leme wiþ lastend þonges.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies iii. xvii. 173 This stone..is light and lasting.
1686 W. Fitzhugh Let. 22 Apr. in W. Fitzhugh & his Chesapeake World (1963) 175 A Yeard..pallizado'd in with locust Punchens, which is as good as if it were walled in, & more lasting than any of our bricks.
1709 J. Lawson New Voy. Carolina 94 It [sc. the tulip-tree] is reckon'd very lasting; especially, under Ground, for Mill-Work.
1721 G. Berkeley Ess. Preventing Ruine Great Brit. 8 Our black Cloth is neither so lasting, nor of so good a Dye as the Dutch.
1733 in Maryland Hist. Mag. (1925) 20 61 A pair of Childs stays to be covered with some Lasting Silk.
1767 J. Penrose Let. 17 Apr. in Lett. from Bath (1983) 168 Blue sattin for a Robe... Mrs Sewell thinks it more lasting than lustring.
1832 J. McGregor Brit. Amer. I. ii. ii. 84 The grey, or more properly, white oak of Canada, is a tolerably close-grained and lasting wood, and much used in ship-building.
1867 Godey's Lady's Bk. Jan. 107/2 For evening wear they are frequently of white lasting silk or satin with colored tips and heels.
1872 C. H. Eden My Wife & I in Queensland 106 Kangaroo-skin boots are very lasting and good.
1902 R. Dubois & W. P. Wilkinson tr. G. Foëx Man. Mod. Viticulture x. 179 Blue water..has the advantage over the Bordeaux mixture in being more lasting.
1907 Practitioner Sept. 428 The employment of the chromicised gut is better than the use of raw material, as it is a little stronger and more lasting.
1960 D. C. Braungart & R. Buddeke Introd. Animal Biol. (ed. 5) xix. 331 The effects are of short duration and parallel those of a drug called ephedrine which is more lasting.
1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts xv. 228/1 Some modern glazes are created by baking or calendering resins onto the fabric, and these are more lasting.
b. Long-lived, not decaying or dying quickly. Of provisions, fruit, etc.: keeping well; remaining fit for consumption for a considerable time.
ΚΠ
1432 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. May 1432 §43. m. 5 Whanne þe wynes of Gascoigne and Guyen were wele and truly made..þan were þei faire, fyne, wele drinkyng and lastyng.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) iv. Prol. l. 5 A garland..Greyne sulde lestande be lange qwhile.
1599 H. Buttes Dyets Dry Dinner sig. N5 Creame..neither is it so lasting as butter.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. iii. 8 A Violet..Forward, not permanent, sweete, not lasting . View more context for this quotation
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §587 How by Art to make Plants more lasting than their ordinary Period.
1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 55 A sort of good lasting fish.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry xix. 541 The Peeling is a lasting Apple, makes very good Cyder.
1797 Mrs. Burton Laura I. 198 I should like to make..a sonnet upon the lasting bloom of a hydrainger.
1849 Horticulturist June 551/2 Such lasting pears as Leon Le Clerc, de Laval, and other long keeping baking pears.
1855 Trans. Amer. Inst. N.-Y. 1854 223 in Docs. Assembly State N.-Y. (78th Session, Doc. No. 144) V In very light, warm soils, where quince is never vigorous nor lasting, pear stocks ought to be used.
1912 W. P. Wright New Gardening i. iv. 60 The Hyacinth is not a lasting flower, but its duration is equal to that of most of the Daffodils.
1920 Wisconsin Hort. Dec. 67/1 It is unfortunate that a more serviceable and lasting flower was not chosen.
1997 M. H. Kramer John Locke & Origins Private Prop. (2004) iii. iv. 145 A nearby shed that was used for storing walnuts (and other lasting foodstuffs, perhaps).
c. Of a colour or dye: not fading quickly, fast.
ΚΠ
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. vii. 50 And Spanish Brown will make a lasting Colour for course Work.
1748 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. I. 31 Blueish green indurated Clay, called by the painters Terre Verte,..one of the best and most lasting greens they have.
1785 M. Cutler in Mem. Amer. Acad. Arts & Sci. 1 447 The berries are employed in dyes by the country people, but the colours are not lasting.
1834 I. Steward Prediction III. 255 Find happiness in notoriety! as soon may you give a lasting tint with dust from the wing of the gilded butterfly.
1898 J. M. Wright Botany vi. 106 From this color in plants, commerce obtains valuable and lasting dyes.
1922 Color Trade Jrnl. Oct. 144/1 A black with a more pleasing and more lasting shade than if a red tone were present.
1981 J. P. Gabbedy Forgotten Pioneers 73 The Muir ladies..used to steep the red-coloured inner bark of the tree and dye their straw hats a vivid and lasting red.
2011 Vanity Fair Feb. 15/1 (advt.) Start with a flush of lasting color for Outlast Lipstain.
3. slang. Of a horse or greyhound: having great staying power. Cf. last n.5 Now rare.
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maiden1760
lasting1809
on the joba1889
pacemaking1937
raceable1944
1809 Sporting Mag. Sept. 267/2 From Arabia has issued the prototype of the best shaped, speediest, and most lasting racer.
1840 Sporting Mag. July 269 The winner here is a very speedy lasting filly.
1856 ‘Stonehenge’ Man. Brit. Rural Sports iii. iii. 167/2 Many a course is won by the slow and small, but lasting dog.
1900 Horse Rev. 24 July 793/3 That dead-game and lasting stallion.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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