Also 6 austure. [L.; cf. L. urĕre, ustum, to burn, Gr. αὔειν to dry, kindle.] The south wind; hence, the south.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Boeth., II. iii. 39. Yif þe cloudy wynde auster blowe felliche.
1535. Stewart, Cron. Scot., I. 354. Throw couetyce culd neuir ȝit be content Of all the Austure and the Orient.
c. 1630. Drumm. of Hawth., Poems, Wks. (1711), 38/1. To dry the weeping Auster’s tears.
1762–9. Falconer, Shipwr., II. 243. Auster’s resistless force all air invades.
