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Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body. Neither would their old men, so many as were yet vigorous and lusty, be left at home. Milton.

An ornamental appendage of wood at the ship's stern, usually spreading like a fan and curved like a bird's feather. Audsley.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

Having balusters. Dryden.

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase, or the eaves of a building.

s wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather. And ever-threatening storms Of Chaos blustering round. Milton.

One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.

Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous. A tempest and a blustering day. Shak.

In a blustering manner.

Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering. Motley.

Blusterous. Shak.

A number of things of the same kind growing together; a bunch. Her deeds were like great clusters of ripe grapes, Which load the bunches of the fruitful vine. Spenser.

In clusters.

Growing in, or full of, clusters; like clusters. Johnson.

heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle. His habit or flustering himself daily with claret. Macaulay.

The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered; fluster. [Colloq.]

To fluster. [Colloq.] Spectator.

The act of flustrating; confusion; flurry. [Colloq.] Richardson.

Capable of illustration. Sir T. Browne.