esture

English

Etymology

See estuate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛstjʊə(ɹ)/, /ˈɛst͡ʃə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -ɛstʃə(ɹ)

Noun

esture (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) commotion
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     The seas retain / Not only their outrageous esture there, / But supernatural mischief they expire.

     The spelling has been modernized.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “esture”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• retuse, Ureste, useter, Sûreté