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A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo- vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.…

Full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty. "Rustful sloth." Quarles.

Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. Milton. And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray. She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth.

Rustic. "Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n.

require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on. The town is again beginning to be full, and the rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment. Idler.

resembling rustic work. See Rustic work (a), under Rustic.

The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offence, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.

The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect. Addison. The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. Sir W. Scot…

In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.

In a rusty state.

The quality or state of being rusty.

s, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. He is coming; I hear his straw rustle. Shak. Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. Shak.

One who, or that which, rustles.

Free from rust.

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

A vassal or voluntary follower of Frankish princes in their enterprises.

An apocrustic medicine.

To trust or intrust. [Obs.]

The act of intrusting, or the thing intrusted. [Obs.] Chipman.

To crackle; to rustle, as a silk garment. [Obs.] Gower.