Obs. exc. Sc. Also 4 buiste, 5 buyste. [a variant of BUST(E, BOIST, box, etc.; the phonetic history is obscure.] A box, a casket = BOIST1; a chest.

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1393.  Gower, Conf., II. 247. To open a buist she him badde. Ibid., III. 292. A strong poison … Within a buist.

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1451.  Act Jas. II. (1597), § 33. Quhill the Wardane haue … put it [the money] in his buist.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 49. Buyste [v.r. Bust], alabastrum.

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1801.  R. Gill, Tint Quey, in Chambers, Hum. Sc. Poems, 173. And frae the willow buist did scatter A tate o’ meal upo’ the water [note, Willow buist, a rustic basket, in which meal is usually held].

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