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times the very rustick people left both their delights and 
profits to hearken to his songs. Sidney. —Rude; untaught; 
nelegant.—An ignorant clown cannot learn fine language or 
a courtly behaviour, when his rustick airs have grown up 
with him till the age of forty. Watts. —Brutal; savage. 
My soul foreboded I should find the bower 
Of some fell monster, fierce with barbarous power; 
Some rustick wretch, who liv’d in heav’n’s despight, 
Contemning laws, and trampling on the right. Pope. 
Artless ; honest; simple.—Plain ; unadorned. 
RU'STIC, s. A clown; a swain; an inhabitant of the 
country.—As nothing is so rude and insolent as a wealthy 
rustick, all this his kindness is overlooked, and his person 
most unworthily railed at. South. —Rude sort of masonry, 
in imitation of simple nature, not according to rules of art. 
Clap four slices of pilaster on’t, 
That laid with bits of rustick makes a front. Pope , 
RU'STICAL, adj. [rusticus, Lat.] Rough; savage; 
boisterous ; brutal; rude.—On he brought me unto so bare a 
house, that it was the picture of miserable happiness and rich 
beggary, served only by a company of rustical villains, full 
of sweat and dust, not one of them other than a labourer. 
Sidney. 
RU'STICALLY, adv. Savagely ; rudely; inelegantly. 
Mv brother Jaques he keeps at school, and report speaks 
goldenly of his profit; for my part he keeps me rustically at 
home. Shakspeare. 
RU'STIC ALNESS, s. The quality of being rustical; 
rudeness; savageness. 
To RU'STICATE, v. n. [ rusticor, Lat.] To reside in 
the country.'—My lady Scudamore, from having rusticated 
in your company too long, pretends to open her eyes for the 
sake of seeing the sun, and to sleep because it is night. 
Pope. 
To RU'STICATE, v. a. To banish into the country.— 
I was deeply in love with a milliner, upon which I was sent 
away, or, in the university phrase, rusticated for ever. 
Spectator. 
RUSTICATION, s. [ rustication , Fr.] A dwelling in 
the country. The word is old, being in Cockeram’s 
vocabulary. Later usage of it implies a kind of exile into 
the country.—I was afraid that her resolution would sink 
under the sudden transition from a town life to such a 
melancholy state of rustication. Smollett. 
RUSTI'CITY, s. [ rusticus , Lat.] Qualities of one that 
lives in the country; simplicity; artlessness; rudeness; 
savageness.—There presented himself a tall, clownish, young 
man, who, falling before the queen of the fairies, desired that 
he might have the atchievement of any adventure, which, 
during the feast, might happen; that being granted, he 
rested him on the floor, unfit for a better place by his 
erusticity. Spenser. 
RU'STILY, adv. In a rusty state.—Their armour they 
should make look so rusti/y, and illfavouredly, as might well 
become such wearers. Sidney. 
RU'STINESS, s. The state of being rusty. 
RUSTINGTON, a parish of England, in Sussex, near 
Brighthelmstone. 
To RU'STLE, v. n. [hpijrlan, Sax. crepitare. “ Fac- 
tum-crediderim a Suio-Goth. hrista, rista, quatere, 
usurpatumque primum ad exprimendum sonum ab armis 
concussis factum.” Serenius.'] To make a low continued 
rattle; to make a quick-succession of small noises. 
This life 
Is nobler than attending for a check; 
Richer, than doing nothing for a bauble; 
Prouder, than rustling in unpaid-for silk. Shakspeare. 
RU'STLING, s. A quick succession of small noises.— 
Let not the creaking of shoes, nor the rustling of silks, betray 
thy poor heart to women. Shakspeare. 
RUT 
RUSTNALL, a village of England, in Wiltshire, near 
Uphaven. 
RUSTOIR, a promontory of Scotland, in Sutherlandshire. 
Lat. 58. 13. N. long. 2. 4. W. from Edinburgh. 
RUSTON, East, a parish of England, in Norfolk; 12 
miles from Norwich. Population 466. 
RUSTON PARVA, a parish of England, East Riding 
of Yorkshire; 4 miles north-east of Great Driffield. 
RUSTRE, a term in Heraldry, denoting a bearing of a 
diamond shape, pierced through the middle with a round 
hole. 
RUSTSCHUK, or Ruscek, a large town in the north of 
European Turkey, in Bulgaria, sandgiacat of Nikopoli, 
situated at the influx of the Cara Lorn into the Danube, 
which is here a very large river; nearly two miles wide. It 
has a castle of considerable strength, with several mosques, 
baths, and other public buildings. It is the see of a Greek 
archbishop, and contains a population of 24,000, composed 
of Greeks,‘Turks, Arminians, and Jews. They have consi¬ 
derable manufactures of cotton, silk, linen, woollen, and 
tobacco. Rustschuk and Giorgiev are also the two great 
entrepots for the commercial intercourse by the Danube be¬ 
tween the Euxine and the interior. Though within the 
limits of the Turkish empire, the commercial habits of its 
citizens have introduced several of the comforts of the more 
civilised parts of Europe, and the traveller arriving from the 
southward, finds here an evident change of the better. It 
was taken by the Russians in 1810, and the following year 
a Turkish army was totally defeated near this by the Russians, 
with the loss of artillery, baggage, and magazines. About 
5 miles from Rustschuk are to be seen the ruins of the old 
town of Tschernow or Csernavoda; 40 miles east of Nicopoli, 
and 55 west of Semendria. Lat. 43. 52. N. long. 25. 
15. E. 
RU'STY, adj. Covered with rust; infected with rust.— 
After a long calm of peace, he was left engaged in a war with 
a rusty sword and empty purse. Howell. —Impaired by 
inactivity. 
Hector, in his dull and long continued truce, ■ 
Is rusty grown. Shakspeare. 
Surly; morose.—There was a guard by St. Giles’s of rusty 
ruffians, kept by lord Lovelace’s order: they made a great 
clutter. Clarendon. —Rancid: a corruption of rcasty. See 
Reasty. 
RUSWARP, a township of England, North Riding of 
Yorkshire, situated on the banks of the Esk; IT mile south¬ 
west-by-west of Whitby. Population 1490. 
RUT, s. [rugitus Lat.] Roquefort. From rauta, ryta, 
Su. Goth, rugire. Serenius.] Copulation of deer.—The 
time of going to rut of deer is in September; for that they 
need the whole summer’s seed to make them fit for generation: 
and if rain come about the middle of September, they go to 
rut somewhat the sooner. Bacon. — Route, Fr. ratta, Su. 
Goth, a path.] The track of a cart wheel. Ainsworth. 
From hills raine-waters headlong fall, 
That allwayeseat huge ruts, which, met in one bed, fill a vail 
With such a confluence of streames, that on the mountaine 
grounds 
Farre off, in frighted shepheards’ eares the bustling noise re¬ 
bounds. Chapman. 
To RUT, v. n. To desire to come together. Used of deer. 
RUTA [adopted by the Romans from the Greek Ptnrvj, 
Varro], in Botany, a genus of the class decandria, order 
monogynia, natural order of multisiliquae, rutaceas (Jv.ss.) 
—Generic Character. Calyx: perianth five-parted, short, 
permanent. Corolla: petals five, spreading, subovate, con¬ 
cave; with narrow claws. Stamina: filaments ten, awl- 
shaped, spreading, the length of the corolla, whitish at the 
base. Anthers erect, very short. Pistil: germ gibbous, in¬ 
scribed with a cross, surrounded at the base by ten honey 
dots; raised on a receptacle punctured with ten honey pores. 
Style erect, awl-shaped. Stigma simple. Pericarp: cap¬ 
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