Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for BUS'TLE
BUS'TLE, v.i. [bus'l. This word may be allied to busy, or to L. festino.]
To stir quick; to be very active; to be very quick in motion, often or usually with the sense of noise or agitation. And leave the world for me to bustle in. – Shak.
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