Lust \Lust\, n. [AS. lust, lust, pleasure, longing; akin to OS., D., G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Skr. lush to desire, or to E. loose. Cf. List to please, Listless.]

1. Pleasure. [Obs.]

`` Lust and jollity.'' --Chaucer.

2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.]

For little lust had she to talk of aught. --Spenser.

My lust to devotion is little. --Bp. Hall.

3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.

The lust of reigning. --Milton.

4. Licentious craving; sexual appetite. --Milton.

5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.]

--Bacon.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Lust \Lust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Lusting.]

[AS. lystan. See Lust, n., and cf. List to choose.]

1. To list; to like. [Obs.]

--Chaucer. `` Do so if thou lust. '' --Latimer.

Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal.

In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste. --Chaucer.

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. --Deut. xii. 15.

Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. --Matt. v. 28.

The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. --James iv. 5.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)