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Definitions for: Rusty [adj] of the color of rust
[adj] ancient; "hoary jokes"
[adj] covered with or consisting of rust; "a rusty machine"; "rusty deposits"
[adj] impaired in skill by neglect
Webster (1913) Definition: Rust"y, a. [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 rusty little schooners that bring firewood from
the British provinces. --Hawthorne.
7. (Bot.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling,
rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
Synonyms: chromatic, hoary, old, out of practice(p), rust, rusted, unskilled
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