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adjective

Rusty adj. (compar. rustier; superl. rustiest)

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."

Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.

Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. (Obs. or Prov. Eng.) "Rusty words."

Rust-colored; dark. "Rusty blood."

Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. "The rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces."

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

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Etymology of 'Rusty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Rusty" Quotes from Famous Books

... isolated piece of table furniture that bore about it a touching air of grandeur in misfortune. This was the caster. It was German silver and crippled and rusty, 15 but it was so preposterously out of place there that it was suggestive of a tattered exiled king among barbarians, and the majesty of its native position compelled respect even in its degradation. ...

— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell

... seen; and when, in later life, he was in French provincial places. "I walk miles away into the country, and you can scarcely imagine by what deserted ramparts and silent little cathedral closes, or how I pass over rusty drawbridges and stagnant ditches out of and into the decaying town." For several consecutive years I accompanied him every Christmas Eve to see the marketings for Christmas down the road from Aldgate to Bow; and he had a surprising ...

— The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete • John Forster

... rusty lock, which was much too large for it, Abel opened the door, and counted Solomon Hatch's sacks of grist, which stood in a row beside a raised platform where an old mill-stone was lying. Other sacks belonging to other farmers were arranged in an orderly ...

— The Miller Of Old Church • Ellen Glasgow

... those of the female; and these differences, acquired under domestication, are regularly transmitted to the same sex. As a rule, it is the females alone in cats which are tortoise-shell, the corresponding colour in the males being rusty-red. With most breeds of the fowl, the characters proper to each sex are transmitted to the same sex alone. So general is this form of transmission that it is an anomaly when variations in certain breeds are transmitted equally to both sexes. ...

— The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex • Charles Darwin

... creature of interesting and singular habits. The Goral and Serow are also two large species inhabiting the Himalayas—especially in the kingdom of Nepaul—while the Chousinga is a denizen of the wooded plains of Bengal, Behar, and Orissa. Two others, Chousingas, are the Rusty red and Full horned, both natives of India; and the Jungliburka, a species found in the Bombay Presidency. In Persia we find the well-known Sasin, or common antelope, as it is usually called; and in the Oriental Islands, Sumatra furnishes us with the Cambing outan, and Japan with the Japanese ...

— Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found - A Book of Zoology for Boys • Mayne Reid

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