A strong musty smell; mustiness. / (architecture) The shaft (main body) of a column.

(intransitive, obsolete) To turn mouldy, to decay. / (intransitive) Of wine: to acquire an undesirable musty or woody taste from the cask in which it is stored.

(nautical, historical) A type of small galley.

Nonstandard form of first.

Nonstandard form of first.

(obsolete) mouldy; having a bad smell

present participle of fust

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fust

Originally, a kind of coarse fabric made from cotton and flax; now, a kind of coarse twilled cotton, or cotton and linen, stuff with a short pile and often dyed a dull colour, which is chiefly prepared for menswear.

Made out of fustian (noun sense 1).