a. Also 6 blusterus, bloustreous, 7 blustrous. [f. BLUSTER sb. + -OUS.]

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  1.  Boisterous, rough, stormy.

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1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Luke vi. 48 (R.). Agaynste any bloustreous storme or tempeste.

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1608.  Shaks., Per., III. i. 28. Mild may be thy life! For a more blustrous birth had never babe.

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1841.  Marryat, Poacher, i. A blusterous windy night.

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  2.  fig. Violent, truculent; given to blustering.

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1663.  Butler, Hud., I. III. 880. Benigne, and not blustrous Against a vanquisht Foe.

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1866.  Sat. Rev., 21 April, 473. His rude and blusterous wrath.

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1877.  Motley, Barneveld, II. xvii. 232. A certain blusterous gentleman.

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  Hence Blusterously adv.

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1548.  Udall, etc., Erasm. Par. Luke xxiv. 37. If lyke perill had bloustreously come upon theim.

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1576.  Newton, trans. Lemnie’s Complex. (1633), 149. Northerne blasts (which sometime blusterously blow in the Summer season).

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