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(), 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. スポンサード リンク
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