arch. [f. LUSTY + -HEAD.] = LUSTINESS in its various senses: pleasure, delight; vigor; lustfulness, libidinousness.

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c. 1369.  Chaucer, Dethe Blaunche, 27. Defaute of slepe and heuynesse Hath slayne my spyrite of quicknesse, That I haue loste al lustyheed.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, XIII. v. 63. Quhayr is now thy schynand lustyhed, Thy fresch figour, thy vissage quhyte and reid?

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1579.  Spenser, Sheph. Cal., May 42. They … Passen their time … In lustihede and wanton meryment.

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1621.  Ainsworth, Annot. Ps. xc. 10 (1639), 137. Their pride, or prowesse, that is, the excellencie, or lustyhead of those yeeres, the bravest of them is but miserie.

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1748.  Thomson, Cast. Indol., II. vii. A knight … Of actiue mind and vigorous lustyhed.

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1870.  Morris, Earthly Par., I. I. 62. And so all being said A little there we gathered lustihead.

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