lastery

English

Etymology

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Noun

lastery

1. (obsolete) A red colour.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     That her became , as polisht yvory
     Which cunning craftesman hand hath overlayd
     With fayre vermilion or pure lastery

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “lastery”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Ratleys, Straley, lyrates, raylets, saltery, stearyl