goustrous (goustrus)

[As gouster + -ous. Cf. gousty.] Stormy; boisterous; rude; violent; frightful. [Scotch.] A goustrous , determined speaking out of the truth. Carlyle, in Froude, I. 176. [Sc., also written goustie; gousty (go us'ti), a. = E. gusty , q. v.] 1. Tempestuous. Cauld, mirk, and goustie is the nicht, Loud roars the blast ayont the hight. 2. Waste; desolate; dreary. IMG:content-2540.png:[blocks in formation] goutte d'or (göt dôr). A white wine of Bur- gundy, of the second cla . goutweed (gout'wed), n. Same as goutwort . goutwort (gout'wert), n . The Ægo podium Poda- graria , an umbelliferous plant of Europe, for- I will not go to Lilias's gousty room. Scott , Abbot, iii. gout (gout), n. [ goute , gowte , the gout, goute , goutte , F. goutte , a drop, the gout, = Sp. Pg. got a = It. gotta , a drop, the gout, gutta , a drop, in ML. applied to the gout, also to dropsy, to catarrh, and (with a distinetive epithet) to various other diseases ascribed to a defluxion of humors: see guttal , gutta se ren a, etc.] 1. A drop; a clot; a coagulation. [Obsolete or archaic.]