Sc. Obs. [f. BUSK v.1 + -ING1.]
1. Fitting out, attiring; concr. attire.
c. 1320. Sir Tristr., 92. Bliþe was his bosking.
1619. Z. Boyd, Last Battell, 961 (Jam.). Too curious busking is the mother of lusting lookes.
1632. Rutherford, Lett., xxiii. (1862), I. 90. The wooer’s busking and bravery … are in vain.
1638. Relat. Accidents, in Harl. Misc. (Malh.), IV. 289. Some [had] … their outward buskings not one thread singed.
fig. 1637. Rutherford, Letters, 70. Godliness is more than the outside and this world’s passments and their buskings.
† b. spec. The dressing of the head; head-dress.
1571. Ascham, Scholem. (Arb.), 54. Either a slouinglie busking, or an ouerstaring frounced hed.
1621. Sc. Act. Jas. VI., xxv. § 3. That none weare upon their Heads, or Buskings, any Feathers.
† 2. Setting out, departure. Obs.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 3245. Bun was he made til his buskyng, Wit tresur grette and riche ring.
