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east. Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust The faithless column, and the crumbling bust. Pope.

A bird of the genus Otis.

Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. [Slang, U.S.] Bartlett.

noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. And leave the world for me to bustle in. Shak.

An active, stirring person.

Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. "A bustling wharf." Hawthorne.

A bust; a statue. With some antick bustoes in the niches. Ashmole.

A burn or scald. Blount.

Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Bartram.

System; discipline. [India]

when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. [Obs.] Planets that are oft combust. Milton.

The quality of being combustible.

king fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South.

Combustibility.

The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. Combustion results is common cases from the mutual chemical action and reaction of the combustible and the oxygen of the atmosphere, whereby a new compound is formed. Ure. Supporter of combustion (Chem.),…

ore thoroughly mixed and burnt. (b) The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited.

Inflammable. [Obs.] Shak.

To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. Bartlett.

The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett.

See Filibuster.