A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 1963 (DOST Vol. III).
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Quotation dates: 1604-1658
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Luster, v.1 P.p. lustred. [e.m.E. (1582) to be or become lustrous, f. Luster n.] a. tr. To put a lustre upon (cloth), to ‘glaze’. b. fig. To embellish, adorn. c. intr. To be radiant or lustrous, to shine. fig. — 1604 Edinb. B. Rec. VI. 311.
To lit and luster the foirsaidis trypes 1640 Rutherford Lett. (1891) 602.
[God's] sovereignty … yet is lustred with mercy a1658 Durham Clavis Cantici 298.
A comely, beautiful sweetnesse that lusters and shines in him
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