Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.
Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. [Hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown. Shak.
Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.
Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "Rusty words." Piers Plowman.
Rust-colored; dark. "Rusty blood." Spenser.
Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces. Hawthorne.
Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
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