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trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak.

n or exertion; to practice gymnastics; as, to exercise for health or amusement. I wear my trusty sword, When I do exercise. Cowper.

A female guardian. I have placed a trusty, watchful guardianess. Beau. & Fl.

s; as, he polled a hundred votes more than his opponent. And poll for points of faith his trusty vote. Tickell.

Not firm or trusty; unsound; defective; treacherous; unsafe; as, a rotten plank, bone, stone. "The deepness of the rotten way." Knolles. Rotten borough. See under Borough. -- Rotten stone (Min.), a soft stone, called also Tripoli (from the country from which it was formerly brought), used in all sorts of finer grindin…

serves; a servant; an attendant; one who acts under another; a follower or adherent. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak.

Sure; certain; trusty. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.] Burns. When he is siker of his good name. Chaucer.

Worthy of trust; faithful; trusty; trustworthy. -- Trust"ful*ly,adv. -- Trust"ful*ness, n.

In a trusty manner.

The quality or state of being trusty.

Worthy of trust or confidence; trusty. -- Trust"wor`thi*ness, n.

Not secret; not close; not trusty; indiscreet. [Obs.] "We are unsecret to ourselves." Shak.

Not to be trusted; not trusty. [R.] Sir W. Scott.