Brewer's: Auster

A wind pernicious to flowers and health. In Italy one of the South winds was so called; its modern name is the Siroco. (Greek, austeros, hot, dry). In England it is a damp wind, generally bringing wet weather.

Nought but putrid streams and noisome fogs. For ever hung on drizzly Auster's beard.

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