▪ I. ‖ auster
(ɔːstə(r))
Also 6 austure.
[L.; cf. L. urĕre, ustum, to burn, Gr. αὔειν to dry, kindle.]
The south wind; hence, the south.
| c 1374 Chaucer Boeth. ii. iii. 39 Yif þe cloudy wynde auster blowe felliche. 1535 Stewart Cron. Scot. I. 354 Throw couetyce culd neuir ȝit be content Of all the Austure and the Orient. c 1630 Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 38/1 To dry the weeping Auster's tears. 1762–9 Falconer Shipwr. ii. 243 Auster's resistless force all air invades. |
▪ II. auster
variant of astre, hearth, home.