n. [ OF. fust, F. fût, fr. L. fustis stick staff. ] (Arch.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of a pilaster. Gwilt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. fust cask, F. fût cask, taste or smell of the cask, fustiness, cf. sentir le fût to taste of the cask. See 1st Fust. ] A strong, musty smell; mustiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To become moldy; to smell ill. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Moldy; ill-smelling. [ Obs. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The coloring matter of fustet. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. fustet (cf. Sp. & Pg. fustete), LL. fustetus, fr. L. fustis stick, in LL., tree, See 1st Fust, and cf. Fustic. ] The wood of the Rhus Cotinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. fustan, fustian, OF. fustaine, F. futaine, It. fustagno, fr. LL. fustaneum, fustanum; cf. Pr. fustani, Sp. fustan. So called from Fustāt, i. e., Cairo, where it was made. ] 1. A kind of coarse twilled cotton or cotton and linen stuff, including corduroy, velveteen, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An inflated style of writing; a kind of writing in which high-sounding words are used, above the dignity of the thoughts or subject; bombast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Made of fustian. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Pompous; ridiculously tumid; inflated; bombastic; as, fustian history. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A writer of fustian. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. fustoc, Sp. fustoc. Cf. Fustet. ] The wood of the Maclura tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic. [ Written also fustoc. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Other kinds of yellow wood are often called fustic; as that of species of Xanthoxylum, and especially the Rhus Cotinus, which is sometimes called young fustic to distinguish it from the Maclura. See Fustet. [ 1913 Webster ]