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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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... men with rusty firelocks, and still more rusty bayonets, stood lounging about. We drove through without stopping, and drew up at the door of my companion's house, which was situated at the rear of the buildings I have spoken of. From the two flag-staffs flew two flags, one-the Union Jack in shreds and tatters, ...

— The Great Lone Land - A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America • W. F. Butler

... blessing, cheap Though purchased with our blood. Well-bred, polite, Credit thy calling. See! how mean, how low, The bookless sauntering youth, proud of the scut That dignifies his cap, his flourished belt, And rusty couples jingling by his side. Be thou of other mould; and know that such Transporting pleasures were by Heaven ordained Wisdom's relief, and ...

— The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase • Joseph Addison, John Gay, William Sommerville

... oasis in the desert of conventional graves appealed to the aesthetic sense of Soames, and he sat down there in the sunshine. Through those trembling gold birch leaves he gazed out at London, and yielded to the waves of memory. He thought of Irene in Montpellier Square, when her hair was rusty-golden and her white shoulders his—Irene, the prize of his love-passion, resistant to his ownership. He saw Bosinney's body lying in that white mortuary, and Irene sitting on the sofa looking at space with the eyes of a dying bird. Again he thought of her by the little green Niobe in the Bois de ...

— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy

... which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use ...

— Thoughts on Art and Life • Leonardo da Vinci

... its mossed pent-roof, stood the Well-House. It had a round wall of old red bricks growing green with time, and a pillar of oak rose up at each point of the compass to support the pent. Between the south and west pillars was a green door, held by a rusty chain and a padlock with six keyholes. The little circular court within was flagged, and three rings of worn steps led to the well-head and the green wooden bucket inverted on the coping. Between the cracks of the flags sprang grass, and pink-starred centaury, and even a trail ...

— Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard • Eleanor Farjeon

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