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To become rural; to go into the country; to rusticate.

To contract rust; to be become oxidized. If gold ruste, what shall iron do Chaucer. Our armors now may rust. Dryden.

To become, or be made, sad. Tennyson.

of steam, or confined gas, water, etc., from a boiler, or other vessel, when the pressure becomes too great for safety; also, sometimes, a similar valve opening inward to admit air to a vessel in which the pressure is less than that of the atmosphere, to prevent collapse.

asitic on the halibut and codfish, -- used by fishermen in the preparation of a salve. It becomes about two inches in length.

To cause to become completely penetrated, impregnated, or soaked; to fill fully; to sate. Innumerable flocks and herbs covered that vast expanse of emerald meadow saturated with the moisture of the Atlantic. Macaulay. Fill and saturate each kind With good according to its mind. Emerson.

To become covered with a scab; as, the wound scabbed over.

ll hemipterous insects belonging to the family Coccidæ, in which the females, when adult, become more or less scalelike in form. They are found upon the leaves and twigs of various trees and shrubs, and often do great damage to fruit trees. See Orange scale,under Orange. -- Scale moss (Bot.), any leafy-stemmed moss of…

To fail, of become less; to scantle; as, the wind scants.

To cause to become versed in science; to make skilled; to instruct. [R.] Francis.

To cause to become like the Scotch; to make Scottish. [R.]

To form a scum; to become covered with scum. Also used figuratively. Life, and the interest of life, have stagnated and scummed over. A. K. H. Boyd.

very large ray, especially any species of the genus Manta or Cepholoptera, some of which become more than twenty feet across and weigh several tons. See also Ox ray, under Ox.

Pacific Oceans. They feed upon fishes, and are mostly of moderate size, but some species become eight or ten feet long and four inches broad.

To become ridgy; to crack open. Later their lips began to parch and seam. L. Wallace.

To become mature; to grow fit for use; to become adapted to a climate.

ower, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior. May the day when we become the second people upon earth . . . be the day of our utter extirpation. Landor.

development of constitutional symptoms to the time when the bones and the internal organs become involved. -- Secondary tint, any subdued tint, as gray. -- Secondary union (Surg.), the union of wounds after suppuration; union by the second intention.

One who becomes surety for another, or engages himself for the performance of another's obligation.

ntal tubes (Anat.), the tubes which primarily open into the segmental duct, some of which become the urinary tubules of the adult.