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Rust·y a. [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.”
5. Rust-colored; dark. “Rusty blood.”
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.
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rusty
adj 1: covered with or consisting of rust; "a rusty machine";
"rusty deposits"
2: of the color of rust [syn: rust]
3: impaired in skill by neglect [syn: out of practice(p)]
4: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: hoary]
[also: rustiest, rustier]