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The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster. Gwilt.

Moldy; ill-smelling. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

The coloring matter of fustet. Ure.

The wood of the Rhus Cptinus or Venice sumach, a shrub of Southern Europe, which yields a fine orange color, which, however, is not durable without a mordant. Ure.

oughts or subject; bombast. Claudius . . . has run his description into the most wretched fustian. Addison.

A writer of fustian. [R.] Milton.

a tinctoria, a tree growing in the West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also old fustic. [Written also fustoc.]

To cudgel. [R.] Bailey.

A punishment by beating with a stick or club; cudgeling. This satire, composed of actual fustigation. Motley.

A low fellow; a stinkard; a scoundrel. [Obs.] Shak.

A gross, fat, unwieldy person. [Obs.] F. Junius.

A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.

Moldy; musty; ill-smelling; rank. "A fusty plebeians." Shak.

A kind of fustian made of coarse twilled cotton, shorn after dyeing. Simmonds.

Fig.: High-sounding words; an inflated style; language above the dignity of the occasion; fustian. Yet noisy bombast carefully avoid. Dryden.

Swelling words without much meaning; bombastic language; fustian. Bombastry and buffoonery, by nature lofty and light, soar highest of all. Swift.

obtrude or thrust in, by falsehood or deception; as, to cog in a word; to palm off. [R.] Fustian tragedies . . . have, by concerted applauses, been cogged upon the town for masterpieces. J. Dennis To cog a die, to load so as to direct its fall; to cheat in playing dice. Swift.

ge discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused. Shak.

To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.] Farcing his letter with fustian. Sandys.

Pertaining to fustet or fisetin.