Available Definitions:
1) a. - Existing or continuing a long while; enduring; as, a lasting good or evil; a lasting color.
2) n. - Continuance; endurance.
3) n. - A species of very durable woolen stuff, used for women's shoes; everlasting.
4) n. - The act or process of shaping on a last.
5) adv. - In a lasting manner.
6) a. - Farthest of all from a given quality, character, or condition; most unlikely; having least fitness; as, he is the last person to be accused of theft.
7) a. - At a time or on an occasion which is the latest of all those spoken of or which have occurred; the last time; as, I saw him last in New York.
8) a. - In conclusion; finally.
9) a. - At a time next preceding the present time.
10) v. i. - To continue in time; to endure; to remain in existence.
11) v. i. - To endure use, or continue in existence, without impairment or exhaustion; as, this cloth lasts better than that; the fuel will last through the winter.
12) v. i. - A wooden block shaped like the human foot, on which boots and shoes are formed.
13) v. t. - To shape with a last; to fasten or fit to a last; to place smoothly on a last; as, to last a boot.
14) n. - A load; a heavy burden; hence, a certain weight or measure, generally estimated at 4,000 lbs., but varying for different articles and in different countries. In England, a last of codfish, white herrings, meal, or ashes, is twelve barrels; a last of corn, ten quarters, or eighty bushels, in some parts of England, twenty-one quarters; of gunpowder, twenty-four barrels, each containing 100 lbs; of red herrings, twenty cades, or 20,000; of hides, twelve dozen; of leather, twenty dickers; of pitch and tar, fourteen barrels; of wool, twelve sacks; of flax or feathers, 1,700 lbs.
15) n. - The burden of a ship; a cargo.