RUSTY

a.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.

2.
a.

Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. [Hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown. Shak.

3.
a.

Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.

4.
a.

Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Rusty words." Piers Plowman.

5.
a.

Rust-colored; dark. "Rusty blood." Spenser.

6.
a.

Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces. Hawthorne.

7.
a.

Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.


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