| Rust, Johann | <person> German surgeon, 1775-1840. See: Rust's disease, Rust's phenomenon. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| 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) |