Lust (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lusting.] [AS.
lystan. See Lust, n., and cf. List to choose.] 1. To list; to like.
[Obs.] Chaucer. " Do so if thou lust. " Latimer.
In earlier usage lust was impersonal.
In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste.
Chaucer.
2. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful
desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of
covetousness; -- often with after.
Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Deut. xii. 15.
Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed
adultery with her already in his heart.
Matt. v. 28.
The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy.
James iv. 5.
Lust"er (?), n. One who lusts.
Lus"ter Lus"tre (?), n. [L. lustrum: cf. F. lustre.] A period of five
years; a lustrum.
Both of us have closed the tenth luster.
Bolingbroke.
{ Lus"ter, Lus"tre, } n. [F. lustre; cf. It. lustro; both fr. L.
lustrare to purify, go about (like the priests at the lustral
sacrifice), traverse, survey, illuminate, fr. lustrum a purificatory
sacrifice; perh. akin to E. loose. But lustrare to illuminate is perh.
a different word, and akin to L. lucere to be light or clear, to shine.
See Lucid, and cf. Illustrious, Lustrum.]