| rust | A type of club fungus that is a parasite on plants. The most common rust is Pucciniagraminis (black stem rust in wheat). (09 Oct 1997) |
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| Rust's disease | Tuberculosis of the two upper cervical vertebrae and their articulations. Synonym: malum vertebrale suboccipitale, spondylarthrocace, spondylocace. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rust's phenomenon | In cancer or caries of the upper cervical vertebrae, the patient will always support the head by the hands when changing from the recumbent to the sitting posture or the reverse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rust, Johann | <person> German surgeon, 1775-1840. See: Rust's disease, Rust's phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rustic | 1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. "And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die." (Gray) "She had a rustic, woodland air." (Wordsworth) 2. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. "A rustic muse." 3. Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress. 4. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. Rustic moth Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc, made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged. Synonym: Rural, rude, unpolished, inelegant, untaught, artless, honest. See Rural. Origin: L. Rusticus, fr. Rus, ruris, the country: cf. F. Rustique. See Rural. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rustle | A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling. "When the noise of a torrent, the rustle of a wood, the song of birds, or the play of lambs, had power to fill the attention, and suspend all perception of the course of time." (Idler) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rusts | Species of Puccinia and other microbes comprising important pathogens of plants, especially cereal grains; they are important allergens for humans when inhaled in large numbers, as in harvesting processes. (05 Mar 2000) |
| rusty | 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. Discoloured and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon. 4. Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. "Rusty words." 5. Rust-coloured; dark. "Rusty blood." 6. Discoloured; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. "The rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces." (Hawthorne) 7. <botany> Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous. Origin: Rustier; Rustiest. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| rusty sputum | A reddish brown, blood-stained expectoration characteristic of lobar pneumonococcal pneumonia. (05 Mar 2000) |