rusticola 
pean woodcock, now called Seolopax rusticola, 
or S. rusticula. 2. [eoj?.] A genus of Scolo- 
pacidte, containing only the rusticola : synony- 
mous with Scolopax in the strictest sense. 
Rusticolae (rus-tik'o-le), n. j>l. [NL., pi. of 
liusticola, q. v.] In ornith., in Men'em's clas- 
sification of birds (1813), a group of birds, in- 
cluding the precocial grallatores, and approxi- 
mately equivalent to the modern order Liiic- 
lee. It was divided into two groups (a) Phalarides, in- 
cluding the rails, coots, and jacanas ; and (o) Limosugee, 
nearly coextensive with the plover-snipe group, shore- 
birds, or Limicolff. proper of modern authors. 
rustily (rus'ti-li), adv. [< rusty 1 + -ly 2 .] In a 
rusty state; in such a manner as to suggest 
rustmess. 
Lowten . . . was in conversation with a rustily-cl&d, 
miserable-looking man, in boots without toes, and gloves 
without fingers. Dickens, Pickwick, xxxi. 
lustiness (rus'ti-nes), n. [< ME. rustynes; < 
rusty 1 -f- -ness.] The state or condition of 
being rusty. 
The rustiness and infirmity of age gathered over the ven- 
erable house itself. Hawthorne, Seven Gables, i. 
rust-joint (rust'joint), n. See rust 1 , 2. 
rustle (rus'l), v. ; pret. and pp. rustled, ppr. 
rustling. [Formerly also rustle; prob. freq. of 
Sw. rusta, stir, make a noise, var. of OSw. ruska, 
rustle, shake, = Dan. rusTce, pull, shake, twitch, 
= Icel. ruska, shake rudely : see rush 2 . Cf . Icel. 
rysla, clatter, as money, and G. ruscheln, freq. 
of ruschen, rustle. Cf. AS. Christian, rustle (in 
Lye, not authenticated), appar. freq. of "hristan, 
in ppr. hristenda (verbal n. Jiristung), shake, 
= Icel. hrista = Dan. ryste = Sw. rysta, rista, 
shake, tremble.] I. intrans. 1. To make a 
wavering, murmuring sound when set in mo- 
tion and rubbed one part upon another or 
against something else ; give out a slightly 
sibilant sound when shaken: as, a rustling 
silk; rustling foliage ; rustling wings. 
When the gust hath blown his fill, 
Ending on the russling leaves. 
Milton, II Penseroso, 1. 129. 
Now and then, sweet Philomel would wail, 
Or stock-doves plain amid the forest deep, 
That drowsy rustled to the sighing gale. 
Thomson, Castle of Indolence, i. 4. 
Her hand shook, and we heard 
In the dead hush the papers that she held 
Rustle. Tennyson, Princess, iv. 
2. To move about or along with a rustling 
sound. 
O, this life 
Is nobler than attending for a check, 
Richer than doing nothing for a bauble, 
Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk. 
Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 3. 24. 
The breeze blows fresh ; we reach the island's edge, 
Our shallop rustling through the yielding sedge. 
0. W. Holmes, The Island Kuin. 
Madame Bourdon rustled from upper to lower hall, re- 
peating instructions to her charges. 
The Century, XXXVII. 87. 
3. To stir about; bestir one's self ; struggle or 
strive, especially against obstacles or difficul- 
ties; work vigorously or energetically; "hus- 
tle." [Slang, western U. S.] 
Rustle now, boys, rustle ! for you have a long and hard 
day's work before you. Harper's Mag., LXXI. 190. 
II. trans. 1 . To cause to rustle. 
The wind was scarcely strong enough to rustle the leaves 
around. T. C. Grattan. 
Where the stiff brocade of women's dresses may have 
rustled autumnal leaves. 
H. James, Jr., Pass. Pilgrim, p. 59. 
2. To shake with a murmuring, rustling sound. 
The air-swept lindens yield 
Their scent, and rustle down their perfumed showers 
Of bloom on the bent grass where 1 am laid. 
M. Arnold, The Scholar-Gipsy. 
3. To make, do, secure, obtain, etc., in a lively, 
energetic manner. [Slang, western TJ. S.] 
When the cow-boy on the round up, the surveyor, or 
hunter, who must camp out, pitches his tent in the grassy 
coule'o or narrow creek-bottom, his first care is to start 
out with his largest gunning-bag to "rustle some buffalo 
chips " for a camp fire. Smithsonian Report, 1887, ii. 451. 
rustle (rus'l), n. [< rustle, .] 1. The noise 
made by one who or that which rustles ; a rus- 
tling. 
In the sweeping of the wind your ear 
The passage of the Angel's wings will hear, 
And on the lichen-crusted leads above 
The rustle of the eternal rain of love. 
3t. Arnold, Church of Brou, iii. 
2. A movement accompanied by a rustling 
sound. 
The soft rustle of a maiden's gown 
Fanning away the dandelion's down. 
Keats, I Stood Tiptoe upon a Little Hill. 
332 
5281 
rustler (rus'ler), H. [< rustle + -re 1 .] 1. One 
who or that which rustles. 
The fairy hopes of my youth I have trodden under foot 
like those neglected rustlers [fallen oak-leaves]. 
Scott, Monastery, viii. 
2. One who works or acts with energy and 
promptness; an active, efficient person; a 
" hustler" ; originally, a cowboy. [Slang, west- 
ern U. S.] 
A horde of rustlers who are running off stock. 
The Vindicator (Los Lunas, New Mexico), Oct. 27, 1883. 
They're a thirsty crowd, an' it comes expinsive; but 
they're worth it, fer they're rustters, ivery wan of thim. 
The Century, XXXVII. 770. 
rustless (rust'les), a. [< rust 1 + -less.] Free 
from rust; that will not rust. 
I have known her fastidious in seeking pure metal for 
clean uses ; and, when once a bloodless and rustless instru- 
ment was found, she was careful of the prize, keeping it 
in silk and cotton wool. Charlotte Bronte, Villette, viii. 
"Polarite " a rustless magnetic oxide of iron in a highly 
porous condition. The Engineer, LXIX. 486. 
rustlingly (rns'ling-li), adv. With a rustling 
sound. 
On Autumn-nights, when rain 
Doth rustlingly above your heads complain 
On the smooth leaden roof. 
H. Arnold, Church of Brou, iii. 
rust-mite (rust'mit), n. One of certain mites of 
the family Phytoptidse, or gall-mites, which do 
not produce galls properly speaking, but live 
in a rust-like substance which they produce 
upon the leaves or fruit of certain plants. 
Many of these rusts have been described by botanists 
as rust-fungi. Phytoptus oleivorus is the rust-mite of the 
orange, which produces the brownish discoloration often 
noticed on oranges. 
rust-proof (rust'prb'f), a. 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. [< F. rustre, a lozenge 
pierced round in the center, also a sort of 
lance, prob. lozenge-shaped; prob. (with un- 
orig. s and r) < OHG. *hruta, ruta, MHG. riite, 
G. raute, a quadrangle, square, rhomboid, facet, 
pane, lozenge in heraldry, = D. ruit = Sw. ruta 
= Dan. rude, square, lozenge, 
pane ; perhaps < Indo-Eur. *kru- 
ta, "ktruta, and so connected 
with L. quattuor, Gr. rirTapci;, 
movpes, etc., G. vier, IS. four: see 
four.'] 1. A scale in early ar- 
mor. See under rustred. Hence 
2. In lier., a lozenge pierced 
with a circular opening, large 
in proportion to the whole surface, the field 
appearing through it. Compare mascle. 
rust-red (rust 'red), a. In zoiil., same as ferru- 
ginous. 
rustred (rus'terd), . [< rustre + -ed 2 .] Hav- 
ing rustres. Rustred armor, armor composed of 
scales lapping one over another, and differing from mas- 
cled armor in the curved form of the scales, which make 
an imbricated pattern. 
Rust's collyrium. A mixture of liquor plumbi, 
elder-water, and tincture of opium. 
rusty 1 (rus'ti), a. [< ME. rusti, rusty, < AS. 
rustig, rusteg (= D. rocstig= OHG. rostag, MHG. 
rostec, rustic, G. rostig = Sw. rostig), rusty, < 
rust 1 , rust: see rust 1 , n. In some senses partly 
confused with resty 1 , restive, and resty 2 , reasty 1 : 
see rusty 2 , nistyZ, resty 1 , resty 2 .'} 1. Covered 
or affected with rust: as, a rusty knife or 
sword. 
Yea, distaff-women manage rusty bills 
Against thy seat. Shale., Rich. II., iii. 2. 118. 
Bars and bolts 
Grew rusty by disuse. Camper, Task, ii. 746. 
Armies waned, for magnet-like she drew 
The rustiest iron of old fighters' hearts. 
Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
2. Consisting of rust; hence, having the ap- 
pearance or effect of rust: as, rusty stains. 
By that same way the direful! dames doe drive 
Their mournefull charett, fild with rusty blood. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. v. 32. 
Not a ship's hull, with its rusty iron links of cable run 
out of hawse-holes long discolored with the iron's rusty 
tears, but seemed to be there with a fell intention. 
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, i. 14. 
3. Covered, incrusted, or stained with a dirty 
substance resembling rust ; hence, filthy ; spe- 
cifically, as applied to grain, affected with the 
rust-disease: as, rusty wheat. 
Shew your rusty teeth 
At every word. B. Jonson, Poetaster, Ind. 
4. In lot. and 2007., of the color of rust; ru- 
biginous; ferruginous. 5. Ked or yellow, as 
fish when the brine in which they are prepared 
evaporates. Fat fish, like herrings, mackerel, 
rusty-crowned 
or halibut-fins, often turn rusty. 6. Having 
lost the original gloss 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 in- 
stead 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, Middlemarch, ix. 
8f. Causing rust ; rendering dull or inactive. 
I deeme thy braine emperished bee 
Through rusty elde, that hath rotted thee. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., February. 
9. Rough ; hoarse ; harsh ; grating : as, a rusty 
voice. 
The old parishioners . . . wondered what was going to 
happen, taking counsel of each other in rusty whispers as 
the door was shut. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 596. 
Rusty blackbird or grackle, Scolecophagua ferrugineus, 
abundant in eastern North America, found in the United 
Rusty Grac 
States chiefly in the fall, winter, and early spring, when it 
is mostly of a reddish-brown color (whence the name). In 
full plumage the male is entirely iridescent black, with 
yellow eyes. It is from 9 to 9 inches long, and 14^ in ex- 
tent of wings. Rusty dab, a flatfish of the genus Platessa, 
found in deep water on the coast of Massachusetts and 
New York. 
rusty 1 ! (rus'ti), v. t. [< rusty 1 , a.] To make 
rusty; rust. 
Th' vngodly Prince . . . 
Reacht out his arm ; but instantly the same 
So strangely withered and so num became, 
And God so ntstied every ioynt, that there 
(But as the Body stird) it could not stir. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Schisme. 
rusty 2 (rus'ti), a. [A var. of resty 2 , reasty 1 , 
confused with rusty 1 .'] Same as reasty 1 for 
reasted. 
You rusty piece of Martlemas bacon, away ! 
Middleton and Rowley, Fair Quarrel, iv. 1. 
rusty 3 (rus'ti), a. [A var. of resty 1 , confused 
with rusty 1 .] Stubborn: same as resty 1 for 
restive. 
In the mean time, there is much urging and spurring 
the parliament for supply and expedition, in both which 
they will prove somewhat rusty. 
Court and Times of Charles I., I. 36. 
To ride, run, or turn rusty, to become contumacious ; 
rebel in a surly manner ; resist or oppose any one ill-na- 
turedly. 
He [the monkey] takes her [the cat] round the neck, and 
tries to pull her down, and if then she turns rusty, . . . 
hell . . . give her a nip with his teeth. 
Mayhem, London Labour and London Poor. 
And how the devil am I to get the crew to obey me? 
Why, even Dick Fletcher rides rusty on me now and then. 
Scott, Pirate, xxxix. 
Company that's got no more orders to give, and wants 
to turn up rttxty to them that has, bad better be making 
room than filling it. Oeorge Eliot, Felix Holt, xi. 
They paraded the street, and watched the yard till dusk, 
when its proprietor ran rusty and turned them out. 
C. Reade, Hard Cash, xlv. 
rustyback (rus'ti-bak). ii. A fern, Ceterach 
officinarum : so named in allusion to the rusty 
scales which cover its lower surface. [Eng.] 
rusty-crowned (rus'ti-kround), a. Having a 
chestnut spot on the top of the head: specifi- 
cally said of the rusty-cnunied falcon, Falco 
( Tin ii a Hi-Hills') sparverms. See sparrow-hau-k. 
