Lus"cious (?), a. [Prob. for lustious, fr. lusty, or perh. a corruption of luxurious. Cf. Lush, Lusty.]
1. Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
And raisins keep their luscious, native taste.
Dryden.
2. Cloying; fulsome.
He had a tedious, luscious way of talking.
Jeffrey.
3. Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene. [R.]
Steele.
-- Lus"cious*ly, adv. -- Lus"cious*ness, n.
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