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a. [ L. arbustivus, fr. arbustum place where trees are planted. ] Containing copses of trees or shrubs; covered with shrubs. Bartram. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hind. & Per. bando-bast tying and binding. ] System; discipline. [ India ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He has more bundobust than most men. Kipling. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. buste, fr. It. busto; cf. LL. busta, bustula, box, of the same origin as E. box a case; cf., for the change of meaning, E. chest. See Bushel. ] 1. A piece of sculpture representing the upper part of the human figure, including the head, shoulders, and breast. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ambition sighed: she found it vain to trust
The faithless column, and the crumbling bust. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The portion of the human figure included between the head and waist, whether in statuary or in the person; the chest or thorax; the upper part of the trunk of the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Especially: A woman's bosom{ 2 }. [ PJC ]

v. t. To arrest, for committing a crime; -- often used in the passive; as, the whole gang got busted. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

v. i. 1. To break or burst. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

2. (Card Playing) In blackjack, to draw a card that causes one's total to exceed twenty-one. [ PJC ]

3. To go bankrupt. [ PJC ]

to go bust to go bankrupt.
or bust or collapse from the effort; -- used in phrases expressing determination to do something; as, Oregon or bust, meaning “We will get to Oregon or die trying.” [ PJC ]

n. [ OF. & Prov. F. bistarde, F. outarde, from L. avis tarda, lit., slow bird. Plin. 10, 22; “proximæ iis sunt, quas Hispania aves tardas appellat, Græcia 'wti`das.” ] (Zool.) A bird of the genus Otis. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The great or bearded bustard (Otis tarda) is the largest game bird in Europe. It inhabits the temperate regions of Europe and Asia, and was formerly common in Great Britain. The little bustard (Otis tetrax) inhabits eastern Europe and Morocco. Many other species are known in Asia and Africa. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. Inoperable due to damage; broken; -- of a machine; as, the coke machine is busted. [ informal ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Arrested for committing a crime; -- of a person; as, the rock star was busted for coke possession.. [ informal ] [ PJC ]

3. [ predicate ] same as demoted; -- said especially of military rank, and often folowed by to; as, he was busted to corporal for being AWOL. [ PJC ]

4. [ predicate ] same as exhausted; -- of people. [ PJC ]

n. Something huge; a roistering blade; also, a spree. [ Slang, U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Bustled (-s'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Bustling (-sl&ibreve_;ng). ] [ Cf. OE. buskle, perh. fr. AS. bysig busy, bysg-ian to busy + the verbal termination -le; or Icel. bustla to splash, bustle. ] To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a crowd. [ 1913 Webster ]

And leave the world for me to bustle in. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement. [ 1913 Webster ]

A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An active, stirring person. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Agitated; noisy; tumultuous; characterized by confused activity; as, a bustling crowd. “A bustling wharf.” Hawthorne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Bustoes [ It. ] A bust; a statue. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a serious quarrel (especially one that ends a friendship). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

With some antick bustoes in the niches. Ashmole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. combustus, p. p. of comburere to burn up; com- + burere (only in comp.), of uncertain origin; cf. bustum funeral pyre, prurire to itch, pruna a live coal, Gr. pyrso`s firebrand, Skr. plush to burn. ] 1. Burnt; consumed. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Astron.) So near the sun as to be obscured or eclipsed by his light, as the moon or planets when not more than eight degrees and a half from the sun. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Planets that are oft combust. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being combustible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. combustible. ] 1. Capable of taking fire and burning; apt to catch fire; inflammable. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sin is to the soul like fire to combustible matter. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Easily kindled or excited; quick; fiery; irascible. [ 1913 Webster ]

Arnold was a combustible character. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A substance that may be set on fire, or which is liable to take fire and burn. [ 1913 Webster ]

All such combustibles as are cheap enough for common use go under the name of fuel. Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Combustibility. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. combustio: cf. F. combustion. ] 1. The state of burning. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) The combination of a combustible with a supporter of combustion, producing heat, and sometimes both light and heat. [ 1913 Webster ]

Combustion results in 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Supporter of combustion (Chem.), a gas, as oxygen, the combination of which with a combustible, as coal, constitutes combustion. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Violent agitation; confusion; tumult. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

There [ were ] great combustions and divisions among the heads of the university. Mede. [ 1913 Webster ]

But say from whence this new combustion springs. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Mech.) (a) A space over, or in front of, a boiler furnace where the gases from the fire become more thoroughly mixed and burnt. (b) The clearance space in the cylinder of an internal combustion engine where the charge is compressed and ignited. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Inflammable. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Sp. flibuster, flibustero, corrupted fr. E. freebooter. See Freebooter. ] A lawless military adventurer, especially one in quest of plunder; a freebooter; -- originally applied to buccaneers infesting the Spanish American coasts, but introduced into common English to designate the followers of Lopez in his expedition to Cuba in 1851, and those of Walker in his expedition to Nicaragua, in 1855. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Fillibustered p. pr. & vb. n. Filibustering. ] 1. To act as a filibuster, or military freebooter. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To delay legislation, by dilatory motions or other artifices. [ political cant or slang, U.S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The characteristics or practices of a filibuster. Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Filibuster. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A buccaneer; an American pirate. See Filibuster. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. incombustilité. ] The quality of being incombustible. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Pref. in- not + combustible: cf. F. incombustible. ] Not combustible; not capable of being burned, decomposed, or consumed by fire; uninflammable; as, asbestus is an incombustible substance; carbon dioxide is an incombustible gas. [ 1913 Webster ]

Incombustible cloth, a tissue of amianthus or asbestus; also, a fabric imbued with an incombustible substance.

-- In`com*bus"ti*ble*ness, n. -- In`com*bus"ti*bly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Mach.) Designating, or pertaining to, any engine (called an ) in which the heat or pressure energy necessary to produce motion is developed in the engine cylinder, as by the explosion of a gas, and not in a separate chamber, as in a steam-engine boiler. The gas used may be a fixed gas, or one derived from alcohol, ether, gasoline (petrol), naphtha, oil (petroleum), etc. There are three main classes: (1) gas engines proper, using fixed gases, as coal, blast-furnace, or producer gas; (2) engines using the vapor of a volatile fluid, as the typical gasoline (petrol) engine; (3) oil engines, using either an atomized spray or the vapor (produced by heat) of a comparatively heavy oil, as petroleum or kerosene. In all of these the gas is mixed with a definite amount of air, the charge is composed in the cylinder and is then exploded either by a flame of gas (flame ignition -- now little used), by a hot tube (tube ignition) or the like, by an electric spark (electric ignition, the usual method is gasoline engines, or by the heat of compression, as in the Diesel engine. Gas and oil engines are chiefly of the stationary type. Gasoline engines are largely used for automobile vehicles, boats, etc. Most internal-combustion engines use the Otto (four-stroke) cycle, though many use the two-stroke cycle. They are almost universally trunk engines and single-acting. Because of the intense heat produced by the frequent explosions, the cylinders must be cooled by a water jacket (water-cooled) or by air currents (air cooled) to give the maximum thermodynamic efficiency and to avoid excessive friction or seizing. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. Not combustible; not able to burn; as, drapery should be made of noncombustible materials. Opposite of combustible.
Syn. -- incombustible. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. robustus oaken, hard, strong, fr. robur strength, a very hard kind of oak; cf. Skr. rabhas violence: cf. F. robuste. ] 1. Evincing strength; indicating vigorous health; strong; sinewy; muscular; vigorous; sound; as, a robust body; robust youth; robust health. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Violent; rough; rude. [ 1913 Webster ]

While romp-loving miss
Is hauled about in gallantry robust. Thomson. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Requiring strength or vigor; as, robust employment. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Strong; lusty; sinewy; sturdy; muscular; hale; hearty; vigorous; forceful; sound. -- Robust, Strong. Robust means, literally, made of oak, and hence implies great compactness and toughness of muscle, connected with a thick-set frame and great powers of endurance. Strong denotes the power of exerting great physical force. The robust man can bear heat or cold, excess or privation, and toil on through every kind of hardship; the strong man can lift a great weight, can give a heavy blow, and a hard gripe. “Robust, tough sinews bred to toil.” Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then 'gan the villain wax so fierce and strong,
That nothing may sustain his furious force. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. L. robusteus of oak. ] Robust. [ Obs. or Humorous ] W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

In Scotland they had handled the bishops in a more robustious manner. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Ro*bus"tious*ly, adv. -- Ro*bus"tious*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a robust manner. [ 1913 Webster ]