Word Meanings - RUSTY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous. (more info) 1. Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat. 2. Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. in this dull
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Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous. (more info) 1. Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat. 2. Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect. in this dull and long-continued truce, Is rusty grown. Shak. 3. Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon. 4. Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. "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.
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- GREENLANDER
A native of Greenland. - GREENLET
l. One of numerous species of small American singing birds, of the genus Vireo, as the solitary, or blue-headed (Vireo solitarius); the brotherly-love ; the warbling greenlet ; the yellow-throated greenlet and others. See Vireo. 2. Any species - GREENSAND
A variety of sandstone, usually imperfectly consolidated, consisting largely of glauconite, a silicate of iron and potash of a green color, mixed with sand and a trace of phosphate of lime. Note: Greensand is often called marl, because - OBSCURENESS
Obscurity. Bp. Hall. - GREENFISH
See POLLOCK - GREENOCKITE
Native cadmium sulphide, a mineral occurring in yellow hexagonal crystals, also as an earthy incrustation. - OBSCURER
One who, or that which, obscures. - SOILY
Dirty; soiled. Fuller. - GREENHOUSE
A house in which tender plants are cultivated and sheltered from the weather. - GREENWEED
See GREENBROOM - SOILURE
Stain; pollution. Shak. Then fearing rust or soilure, fashioned for it A case of silk. Tennyson. - GREENHORN
A raw, inexperienced person; one easily imposed upon. W. Irving. - MUSTY
1. Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books. Harvey. 2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale. The proverb is somewhat - GREEN-STALL
A stall at which greens and fresh vegetables are exposed for sale. - GREENISH
Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow. -- Green"ish*ness, n. - DISCOVERTURE
A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband. (more info) 1. Discovery. - DUSKY
1. Partially dark or obscure; not luminous; dusk; as, a dusky valley. Through dusky lane and wrangling mart. Keble. 2. Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds - SOIL PIPE
A pipe or drain for carrying off night soil. - GREENBACKER
One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments. - GREENGAGE
A kind of plum of medium size, roundish shape, greenish flesh, and delicious flavor. It is called in France Reine Claude, after the queen of Francis I. See Gage. - DINGEY; DINGY; DINGHY
1. A kind of boat used in the East Indies. Malcom. 2. A ship's smallest boat. - UNDERSOIL
The soil beneath the surface; understratum; subsoil. - TRUSTY
1. Admitting of being safely trusted; justly deserving confidence; fit to be confided in; trustworthy; reliable. Your trusty and most valiant servitor. Shak. 2. Hence, not liable to fail; strong; firm. His trusty sword he called to his - AYEGREEN
The houseleek . Halliwell. - BRUNSWICK GREEN
An oxychloride of copper, used as a green pigment; also, a carbonate of copper similarly employed. - SUBOBSCURELY
Somewhat obscurely or darkly. Donne. - SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook. - SHAGREEN
To chagrin.