Rust"y (?), 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 rustly little schooners that bring fire wood from the Brititsh provinces.
Hawthorne.
7. Bot. Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
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