Lust
Lust , noun
[Anglo-Saxon lust, lust, pleasure, longing; akin to Old Saxon, Dutch, German, & Swedish lust, Danish & Icelandic lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Sanskrit lush to desire, or to English loose. Compare List to please, Listless.]
1.
Pleasure. [Obsolete]
Lust and jollity.
2.
Inclination; desire. [Obsolete]
For little lust had she to talk of aught.
My lust to devotion is little.
3.
Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.
The lust of reigning.
4.
Licentious craving; a strong sexual appetite. — Milton
5.
Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obsolete] — Bacon
Lust , intransitive verb
[Anglo-Saxon lystan. See Lust, n., and compare List to choose.]
1.
To list; to like. [Obsolete] — Latimer
Do so if thou lust.
In the water vessel he it cast
When that him luste.
2.
To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.
Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.
Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart.
The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy.