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Definition of Fustics
1. fustic [n] - See also: fustic
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fustics
Literary usage of Fustics
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Melomaniacs by James Huneker (1902)
"I 've met a Lieutenant fustics— oh, he's lovely, belongs to the oldest family in
... Herr Lieutenant fustics asked my father's business, and told me all ..."
2. Supplementary Papers (1893)
"... and twenty-eight fustics to the acre ; and near ... and fustics cease, but
are again found in great abundance beyond the lagoon ..."
3. The history of England from the accession of James the second by Thomas Babington Macaulay (1877)
"After the roll of those who were proscribed by name, came a series of categories.
First stood all the crowd of fustics who had been rude to James when ..."
4. A History of the Later Roman Empire: From Arcadius to Irene (395 A.D. to 800 by John Bagnell Bury (1889)
"Build, build alott thy pillar, iii.11,4. Evagrius gives an unfavourable pen mount
and stand upon it, account of fustics moral character £££53 ..."
5. The Journal of the Society of Chemical Industry by Society of Chemical Industry (1884)
"... is changed into green-olive, for you kno.v that copper salts, logwood, and
fustics in proper proportions will dye green-olive on either wool or cotton. ..."
6. The Book of British Topography: A Classified Catalogue of the Topographical by John Parker Anderson (1881)
"4° The fustics and Old Mansions of Shropshire. [By Mrs. FS Acton.] Shrewsbury.
1868. 8° Eyton, Charlotte. Notes on the Geology of North Shropshire. London. ..."
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