Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lust \Lust\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lusted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Lusting}.] [AS. lystan. See {Lust}, n., and cf. List to
   choose.]
   1. To list; to like. [Obs.] --Chaucer. `` Do so if thou lust.
      '' --Latimer.

   Note: In earlier usage lust was impersonal.

               In the water vessel he it cast When that him
               luste.                             --Chaucer.

   2. To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate
      or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual
      appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.

            Whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.    --Deut. xii.
                                                  15.

            Whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her, hath
            committed adultery with her already in his heart.
                                                  --Matt. v. 28.

            The spirit that dwelleth in us lusteth to envy.
                                                  --James iv. 5.