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One who lusts.

A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.

The act or process of imparting a luster, as to pottery.

Destitute of luster; dim; dull.

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.

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.

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.]

A want of luster. -- a.

To excel in brightness or luster. Shak.

Heaped, or growing in heaps, or closely compacted clusters.

Having the form of a cluster of grapes; clustered like grapes.