How to pronounce“fust”in English
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Definitions of “fust”
A strong musty smell; mustiness.
“the fust of old books & older cheese / nobody loves gossip like these salaried dudes”
The shaft (main body) of a column.
“Cherici, Giuseppe, & Sons, Volterra. A large alabaster vase, after the Etrurian style; executed in the exhibitors' manufactory in Volterra, […] The vase is placed on the fust of a column of the Tuscan order.”
To turn mouldy, to decay.
“Sure he that made vs with ſuch large diſcourse / Looking before and after, gaue vs not / That capabilitie and god-like reaſon / To fvſt in vs vnvſed, […]”
Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.
“VI. To prevent wine from fuſting, otherwiſe taſting of the caſk, and to give it both a taſte and flavour quite agreeable. Stick a lemon with cloves as thick as it can hold; hang it by the bung hole in a bag over the wine in the caſk for three or four days, and ſtop it very carefully for fear of its turning dead, if it ſhould get air.”