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BUS'TLE, v.i. bus'l. [ This word may be allied to busy,or to L. festino.]
To stir quick; to be very active; to be very quick in motion, often or usually with the sense of noise or agitation.
BUS'TLE, n. bus'l. Hurry; great stir; rapid motion with noise and agitation; tumult from stirring or agitation; combustion.
To move noisily; to be rudely active; to move in a way to
cause agitation or disturbance; as, to bustle through a
crowd.
And leave the world for me to bustle in. Great stir; agitation;
tumult from stirring or excitement.
A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. A kind of pad or cushion
worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts;
-- called also bishop, and tournure.
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