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  • English Word Rust Definition The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.
  • English Word Rust Definition A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.
  • English Word Rust Definition That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.
  • English Word Rust Definition A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.
  • English Word Rust Definition Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.
  • English Word Rust Definition Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.
  • English Word Rust Definition To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
  • English Word Rust Definition To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
  • English Word Rust Definition To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
  • English Word Rust Definition To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
  • English Word Rust Definition To impair by time and inactivity.
  • English Word Rusted Definition of Rust
  • English Word Rustful Definition Full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty.
  • English Word Rustic Definition Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.
  • English Word Rustic Definition Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners.
  • English Word Rustic Definition Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
  • English Word Rustic Definition Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
  • English Word Rustic Definition An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
  • English Word Rustic Definition A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
  • English Word Rustical Definition Rustic.
  • English Word Rusticate Definition To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.
  • English Word Rusticate Definition To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.
  • English Word Rusticated Definition of Rusticate
  • English Word Rusticated Definition Resembling rustic work. See Rustic work (a), under Rustic.
  • English Word Rusticating Definition of Rusticate
  • English Word Rustication Definition The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time.
  • English Word Rustication Definition Rustic work.
  • English Word Rusticity Definition The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.
  • English Word Rusticly Definition In a rustic manner; rustically.
  • English Word Rustily Definition In a rusty state.