Definition of "auster" [aus•ter]

• The south wind. (noun)

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• "At the present day, an _auster_ tenement is a species of copyhold, with all the incidents to that tenure."
• "And is compared to wind which is hot, whereof is said in the Canticles: Veni auster et perfla hortum meum."
• "Flora quibus mater præspargens ante viai cuncta coloribus egregiis et odoribus opplet. inde loci sequitur calor aridus et comes una pulverulenta Ceres et etesia flabra aquilonum, inde antumnus adit, graditur simul Eubius Euan, inde aliæ tempestates ventique secuntur, altitonans Volturnus et auster fulmine pollens. tandem bruma nives adfert pigrumque rigorem, prodit hiemps, sequitur crepitans hanc dentibus algor."