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Look up: Lust

  1. lust
    [n] - self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)
    Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio

  2. Lust
    (Sexual attraction, fixation, desire.) Lust focuses mainly on the sexual aspects of admiration for another person, and is nearly as shallow as attraction in terms of its emphasis on appearance. It involves being aroused by the sight of, and thoughts of, the person. Daydreams about sexual activity with them are combined with involuntary sexual respo...
    Found on http://stuff.myrealm.co.uk/definitions.p

  3. Lust
    Lust noun [ Anglo-Saxon lust , lust , pleasure, longing; akin to Old Saxon , D., G., & Swedish lust , Dan. & Icelandic lyst , Goth lustus , and perhaps tom Sanskrit lush to desire, or to English loose . Confer List to please, Listless .] 1. Pleasure. [ Obsolete] ' Lust and jollity.' Chaucer. 2. Inclination; ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/70

  4. Lust
    Lust intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Lusted ; present participle & verbal noun Lusting .] [ Anglo-Saxon lystan . See Lust , noun , and confer List to choose.] 1. To list; to like. [ Obsolete] Chaucer. ' Do so if thou lust . ' Latimer. » In ear ...
    Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/L/70

  5. lust
    1. To list; to like. ' Do so if thou lust. ' ... In earlier usage lust was impersonal. 'In the water vessel he it cast When that him luste.' (Chaucer) ... 2. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; often with after. 'Whatsoever thy soul lusteth af ...
    Found on http://www.mondofacto.com/facts/dictiona

  6. lust
    luxuria noun self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)
    Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?

  7. Lust
    `Lust` is any intense desire or craving for self gratification. Lust can mean strictly sexual lust, although it is also common to speak of a ``lust for men``, ``lust for blood (bloodlust` for short`)`` or a ``lust for power``, or other goals and to `lust for love`. The Greek word which translates as lust is `epithymia` , which also is translated into English as `to covet`.
    Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lust

  8. Lust
    • (n.) Pleasure. • (n.) Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. • (n.) Inclination; desire. • (n.) To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after. • (n.) Licentious craving; sexual appetite. • (n.) Longin...
    Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning

  9. LUST
    Leaking Underground Storage Tank
    Found on http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/operations/acc

  10. LUST
    Leaking Underground Storage Tank
    Found on http://www-bdnew.fnal.gov/operations/acc


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21 November 2009

This day in history:
On 21st November 1974 the Provisional IRA plants bombs in two Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town. Twenty-one people die and 182 are injured. A few minutes before the explosions a warning had been telephoned to the local newspaper, the Birmingham Post and Mail, but it was far too late. The first Birmingham bomb, at the Mulberry Bush pub in the basement of the Rotunda, a 20-storey office and retail complex and it exploded six minutes after the telephone warning. There was not enough time for police to clear the area. Earlier that year nine soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded on a coach on the M62 near Bradford, while two bombs in Guildford killed four soldiers and injured scores of other people. read more

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