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rust | to impair by time and inactivity. |
rustful | full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty. |
rustic | of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. |
rustic | rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. |
rustic | coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress. |
rustic | simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. |
rustic | an inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown. |
rustic | a rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person. |
rustical | rustic. |
rusticated | of rusticate |
rusticating | of rusticate |
rusticate | to go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. |
rusticate | to require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on. |
rusticated | resembling rustic work. see rustic work , under rustic. |
rustication | 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. |
rustication | rustic work. |
rusticity | the quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. |
rusticly | in a rustic manner; rustically. |
rustily | in a rusty state. |
rustiness | the quality or state of being rusty. |
rustled | of rustle |
rustling | of rustle |
rustle | to make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves. |
rustle | to stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about. |
rustle | to cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves. |
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. |
rustler | one who, or that which, rustles. |
rustler | a bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person. |
rustless | free from rust. |
rusty | covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat. |
rusty | impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. |
rusty | discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon. |
rusty | surly; morose; crusty; sullen. |
rusty | rust-colored; dark. |
rusty | discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy. |
rusty | resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous. |
rut | sexual desire or oestrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the oestrus exists. |
rut | roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. see rote. |
rutted | of rut |
rutting | of rut |
rut | to have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc. |
rut | to cover in copulation. |
rut | a track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. also used figuratively. |
rut | to make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road. |
ruta-baga | a kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a swedish turnip. see turnip. |
rutaceous | of or pertaining to plants of a natural order of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu. |
rutate | a salt of rutic acid. |
ruth | sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness. |
ruth | that which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight. |
ruthenic | pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds. |
ruthenious | pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds. |
ruthenium | a rare element of the light platinum group, found associated with platinum ores, and isolated as a hard, brittle steel-gray metal which is very infusible. symbol ru. atomic weight 103.5. specific gravity 12.26. see platinum metals, under platinum. |
ruthful | full of ruth |
ruthful | pitiful; tender. |
ruthful | full of sorrow; woeful. |
ruthful | causing sorrow. |
ruthless | having no ruth; cruel; pitiless. |
rutic | pertaining to, or obtained from, rue ; as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid. |
rutilant | having a reddish glow; shining. |
rutilate | to shine; to emit rays of light. |
rutile | a mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. in composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite. |
rutilian | any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle . |
rutin | a glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. rutin is found in the leaves of the rue and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition. |
rutinose. | a disaccharide present in glycosides. |
rutter | a horseman or trooper. |
rutter | that which ruts. |
rutterkin | an old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt. |
ruttier | a chart of a course, esp. at sea. |
ruttish | inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious. |
ruttle | a rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle. |
rutty | ruttish; lustful. |
rutty | full of ruts; as, a rutty road. |
rutty | rooty. |
rutylene | a liquid hydrocarbon, c10h18, of the acetylene series. it is produced artificially. |
ryal | royal. |
ryal | see rial, an old english coin. |
ryder | a clause added to a document; a rider. see rider. |
ryder | a gold coin of zealand [netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $ 5.60. |
rye | a grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass , closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man. |
rye | a disease in a hawk. |
rynd | a piece of iron crossing the hole in the upper millstone by which the stone is supported on the spindle. |
ryot | a peasant or cultivator of the soil. |
rypophagous | eating, or subsisting on, filth. |
rys | a branch. |
rysh | rush, a plant. |
rysimeter | see rhysimeter. |
ryth | a ford. |
rytina | a genus of large edentulous sirenians, allied to the dugong and manatee, including but one species ; -- called also steller's sea cow. |