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Webster 1913 Edition

Luscious

Lus′cious

,
Adj.
[Prob. for
lustious
, fr.
lusty
, or perh. a corruption of
luxurious
. Cf.
Lush
,
Lusty
.]
1.
Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
And raisins keep their
luscious
, native taste.
Dryden.
2.
Cloying; fulsome.
He had a tedious,
luscious
way of talking.
Jeffrey.
–
Lus′cious-ly
,
adv.
–
Lus′cious-ness
,
Noun.

Webster 1828 Edition

Luscious

LUS'CIOUS

,
Adj.
[I know not the origin and affinities of this word.]
1.
Sweet or rich so as to cloy or nauseate; sweet to excess; as luscious food.
2.
Very sweet; delicious; grateful to the taste.
And raisins keep their luscious native taste.
3.
Pleasing; delightful.
He will bait him in with the luscious proposal of some gainful purchase.
4.
Fullsome; as luscious flattery.
5.
Smutty; obscene. [Unusual.]

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