Middle English Dictionary Entry
auster n.
Entry Info
| Forms | auster n. |
| Etymology | L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
The south wind.
Associated quotations
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)134b/a : Þanne comeþ..auster, þe souþerne wynde.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)1.m.7.3 : The truble wynd that hyghte Auster, turnynge and walwynge the see, medleth the heete.
- ?a1425(c1380) Chaucer Bo.(Benson-Robinson)2.m.4.8 : The felle wynd Auster tormenteth the cop of the mountaigne.
- (a1460) Vegetius(2) (Pmb-C 243)2679 : Auster is cardinal meridian, Nothus ful grymly goth on his right side, And Chorus on the right [read: lift] hond forth thei han.