Word Meanings - LUSTERLUSTRE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A period of five years; a lustrum. Both of us have closed the tenth luster. Bolingbroke.

• Periodic
  Pertaining to, derived from, or designating, the highest oxygen acid (HIO/) of iodine.
• CLOSEBARRED
  Firmly barred or closed.
• Closereefed
  Having all the reefs taken in; -- said of a sail.
• Periodical
  Of or pertaining to a period or periods, or to division by periods.
• CLOSEBODIED
  Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. Ayliffe.
• Close-stool
  A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.
• Periodicalist
  One who publishes, or writes for, a periodical.
• CLOSEFIGHTS
  Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also close quarters. [Obs.]
• Periodically
  In a periodical manner.
• CLOSESTOOL
  A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the form of a box, with a seat and tight cover.
• Closeting
  of Closet
• Periodicalness
  Periodicity.
• CLOSETONGUED
  Closemouthed; silent. "Close-tongued treason." Shak.
• Close-banded
  Closely united.
• Close-tongued
  Closemouthed; silent.

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