Definition of "oister" [oister]

• An obsolete spelling of oyster. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Page view page image: the men and women were [wear] them suspen [ded] from the ear in little bunches or intermixed with triangular peices of the shells of the perl oister. the men also were them attached in"
• "He speaks of one who "looks as pale as the visard of the ghost which cries so miserably at The Theatre, like an oister-wife, 'Hamlet revenge.'""
• "* Hematopus ostrealegus, the will willet or oister catcher."