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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Great stir; agitation; tumult from stirring or excitement. A strange bustle and disturbance in the world. South.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

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.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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. Shak.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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