rustproof (rustprof)

Proof against rust; free from the danger of rusting. = This tank is costly, for its joints and bearings must be rust-proof. Jour. Franklin Inst ., CXXI. 284. rustre (rus'ter), n. [ hrūta , rūta , MHG. rūte , G. raute , a quadrangle, square, rhomboid, facet, pane, lozenge in heraldry, = D. ruit = Sw. rut a Dan. rude , square, lozenge, pane; perhaps krū ta , * ktrūta , and so connected with L. quattuor , Gr. τέτταρες, πίσυρες, etc., G. vier , E. four : see four.] 1. A scale in early armor. See under rustred . Hence -2. In her . , a lozenge pierced with a circular opening, large whole surface, the field Compare mascle . Rustre, 2. in proportion to the appearing through it. rust-red (rust'red), a. ginous. rustred (rus'tėrd), a. In zoöl ., same as ferru [ rustre + -ed2.] Having rustres. Rustred armor, armor composed of scales lapping one over another, and differing from mascled armor in the curved form of the scales, which make an imbricated pattern. Rust's collyrium. A mixture of liquor plumb i, elder-water, and tincture of opium. rusty1 (rus'ti), a. [ rustig, rusteg (=D.rocstig=OHG. rostag, MHG. rostec, rustic, G. rostig = Sw. rostig ), rusty, Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills Against thy seat. Shak., Rich. II., iii. 2. 118. IMG:content-2642.png:[blocks in formation] Shew your rusty teeth sound. The soft rustle of a maiden's gown Fanning away the dandelion's down. or halibut-fins, often turn rusty.-6. Having lost the original glo or luster; time-worn; shabby: as, a rusty black; clothes rusty at the seams. Some there be that have pleasure only in old rusty an tiquities, and some only in their own doings. Sir T. More, Utopia, Ded. to Peter Giles, p. 12. The hens were now scarcely larger than pigeons, and had a queer, rusty , withered aspect, and a gouty kind of movement, and a sleepy and melancholy tone throughout all the variations of their clucking and cackling. Hawthorne , Seven Gables, vi. Mordecai had no handsome Sabbath garment, but instead of the threadbare rusty black coat of the morning he wore one of light drab. George Eliot , Daniel Deronda, xxxiv. 7. Out of practice; dulled in skill or knowledge through disuse or inactivity. Hector in this dull and long-continued truce Is rusty grown. Shak., T. and C., i. 3. 263. One gets rusty in this part of the country, you know. Not you, Casaubon; you stick to your studies. George Eliot , Middle march, ix. IMG:content-2643.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small] Reacht out his arm; but instantly the same So strangely withered and so num became, And God so rustied every ioynt, that there (But as the Body stird) it could not stir. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. rusty2 (rus'ti), a . [A var. of resty2, reastyl, confused with rustyl .] Same as reastyl for reasted . You rusty piece of Martlemas bacon, away! Middle ton and Rowley , Fair Quarrel, iv. 1.