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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lust \Lust\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Lusted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lusting}.] [AS. lystan. See {Lust}, noun, and cf. List to choose.]
1. To list; to like. [Obs.] --Chaucer. '' Do so if thou lust. '' --Latimer.
Note: 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 after. --Deut. xii. 15.
Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath committed adultery with her already in his heart. --Matt. v. 28.
The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy. --James iv. 5.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lust \Lust\, noun [AS. lust, lust, pleasure, longing; akin to OS., D., G., & Sw. lust, Dan. & Icel. lyst, Goth lustus, and perh. tom Skr. lush to desire, or to E. loose. Cf. {List} to please, {Listless}.]
1. Pleasure. [Obs.] '' Lust and jollity.'' --Chaucer.
2. Inclination; desire. [Obs.]
For little lust had she to talk of aught. --Spenser.
My lust to devotion is little. --Bp. Hall.
3. Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.
The lust of reigning. --Milton.
4. Licentious craving; a strong sexual appetite. --Milton.
5. Hence: Virility; vigor; active power. [Obs.] --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
lust
noun
1: a strong sexual desire [syn: {lecherousness}, {lustfulness}]
2: self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: {luxuria}]
verb: have a craving, appetite, or great desire for [syn: {crave}, {hunger}, {thirst}, {starve}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
153 Moby Thesaurus words for "lust": acedia, ache, ache for, acquisitiveness, ambition, andromania, anger, animality, animus, aphrodisia, appetence, appetency, appetite, appetition, avarice, avariciousness, avaritia, avidity, avidness, bawdiness, biological urge, bodily appetite, carnal desire, carnality, choice, clitoromania, command, conation, conatus, concupiscence, coveting, covetousness, crave, craving, cupidity, deadly sin, decision, desire, determination, dirtiness, discretion, disposition, drive, energy, envy, eromania, eroticism, eroticomania, eroticomaniac, erotism, erotomania, excitement, fancy, fervor, fleshliness, fleshly lust, free choice, free will, frenzy of desire, furor uterinus, fury of desire, gluttony, goatishness, grasping, graspingness, greed, greediness, gula, gynecomania, hanker, heat, hoggishness, horniness, hot blood, hot pants, hunger, hysteromania, inclination, incontinence, indecency, infantile sexuality, inordinate desire, insatiability, insatiable desire, intemperateness, intention, invidia, ira, itch, itching palm, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, lewdness, libidinousness, libido, lickerishness, liking, lubriciousness, lubricity, lust after, lustfulness, luxuria, mind, nymphomania, objective, obscenity, overgreediness, passion, piggishness, pine, pleasure, polymorphous perversity, priapism, pride, prurience, pruriency, randiness, rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, resolution, rut, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, satyrism, sensuality, sexiness, sexual desire, sexual longing, sexual passion, sexuality, sloth, sordidness, superbia, swinishness, thirst, urge, uteromania, velleity, venereal appetite, volition, voraciousness, voracity, will, will power, wish, wolfishness, wrath, yearn, yearning, yen
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Lust sinful longing; the inward sin which leads to the falling away from God (Rom. 1:21). "Lust, the origin of sin, has its place in the heart, not of necessity, but because it is the centre of all moral forces and impulses and of spiritual activity." In Mark 4:19 "lusts" are objects of desire.
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