Obs. Also 4 Sc. bouste. [var. of BOIST sb.] A box, esp. for containing ointments, drugs, confectionery, etc. Cf. BOIST, BOOST, BUIST.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 226. He haueð so monie bustes ful of his letuaries.
c. 1375. ? Barbour, St. Magdalena, 111. A bouste of precius vngument.
c. 1450. Henryson, Mor. Fab., 30. Out of his buste ane bill can hee braid.
1483. Cath. Angl., 49/1. A Buyste [v.r. Bust].
1566. Knox, Hist. Ref., Wks. 1846, I. 264. The Lord James … had (by all appearance) lyked of the same bust that dispatched the rest.
