Category:Rusty

Rust"y, a. Etym: [as. rustig.] [compar. Rustier (superl. Rustiest.]

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

2. Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. [hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce, is rusty grown. Shak.

3. Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.

4. Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [obs. or prov. Eng.] "rusty words." Piers plowman.

5. Rust-colored; dark. "rusty blood." Spenser.

6. Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the brititsh Provinces. Hawthorne.

7. (bot.)

Defn: resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; Affected with rust; rubiginous.