LUST

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Pleasure [Obs.] " Lust and jollity." Chaucer.

2.
n.

Inclination; desire. [Obs.] For little lust had she to talk of aught. Spenser. My lust to devotion is little. Bp. Hall.

3.
n.

Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain. The lust of reigning. Milton.

4.
n.

Licentious craving; sexual appetite. Milton.

5.
n.

Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.] Bacon.

6.
v.

To list; to like. [Obs.] Chaucer. " Do so if thou lust. " Latimer.

7.
v.

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.

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