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Having balusters. Dryden.

A beggar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

Supported; upheld.

A supporter.

The hundredth part of a stere, equal to .353 cubic feet.

Dwelling in cloisters; solitary. "Cloistered friars and vestal nuns." Hudibras. In cloistered state let selfish sages dwell, Proud that their heart is narrow as their cell. Shenstone.

One belonging to, or living in, a cloister; a recluse.

A measure of capacity, equal to ten steres, or ten cubic meters.

The tenth part of the stere or cubic meter, equal to 3.531 cubic feet. See Stere.

Same as Decastere.

Same as Electrotype.

One who, or that which, fosters.

A fruiteress. [Obs.]

A measure of solidity, containing one hundred cubic meters, and equivalent to 3531.66 English or 3531.05 United States cubic feet.

Bearing holsters. Byron.

An unexplained epithet used by Chaucer in reference to ships. By some it is defined as "dancing (on the wave)"; by others as "opposing," "warlike." T. R. Lounsbury.

A huckster. Gladstone. Those hucksterers or money-jobbers. Swift.

A lagging or retardation of the effect, when the forces acting upon a body are changed, as if from velocity or internal friction; a temporary resistance to change from a condition previously invuced, observed in magnetism, thermoelectricity, etc., on reversal of polarity.

Of or pert. to hysteresis. -- Hysteretic constant, the hysteretic loss in ergs per cubic centimeter per cycle.