lust

1. n. Pleasure. Source: opted

2. n. Inclination; desire. Source: opted

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

4. n. Licentious craving; sexual appetite. Source: opted

5. n. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. Source: opted

6. n. To list; to like. Source: opted

7. n. 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. Source: opted

8. n. a strong sexual desire Source: wordnet

9. n. self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins) Source: wordnet

10. v. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for Source: wordnet

11. 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. 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

12. v:11/n:89 n. self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins) Source: ecdict

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