Rustic adjective [ Latin rusticus , from rus , ruris , the country: confer French rustique . See Rural .]
1. Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity. " Rustic lays." Milton.

And many a holy text around she strews,
That teach the rustic moralist to die.

Gray.

She had a rustic , woodland air.

Wordsworth.

2. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. "A rustic muse." Spenser.

3. Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.

4. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. Pope.

Rustic moth (Zoology) , any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larvæ are called cutworms . See Cutworm . -- Rustic work . (a) (Architecture) Cut stone facing which has the joints worked with grooves or channels, the face of each block projecting beyond the joint, so that the joints are very conspicuous . (b) (Arch. & Woodwork) Summer houses, or furniture for summer houses, etc., made of rough limbs of trees fancifully arranged.

Syn. -- Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward; rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless; honest. See Rural .

Rustic noun
1. An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.

Hence to your fields, you rustics ! hence, away.

Pope.

2. A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person. [ Poetic]

Rustical adjective Rustic. " Rustical society." Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly , adverb -- Rus"tic*al*ness , noun

Rusticate intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rusticated ; present participle & verbal noun Rusticating .] [ Latin rusticaticus , past participle of rusticari to rusticate. See Rustic .] To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope.

Rusticate transitive verb To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.

The town is again beginning to be full, and the rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment.

Idler.

Rusticated adjective (Architecture) Resembling rustic work. See Rustic work (a) , under Rustic .

Rustication noun [ Latin rusticatio .]
1. 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.

2. (Architecture) Rustic work.

Rusticity noun [ Latin rusticitas : confer French rusticité .] The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness.

The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect.

Addison.

The Saxons were refined from their rusticity .

Sir W. Scott.

Rusticly adverb In a rustic manner; rustically. Chapman.

Rustily adverb In a rusty state.

Rustiness noun The quality or state of being rusty.

Rustle intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rustled ; present participle & verbal noun Rustling .] [ Anglo-Saxon hristlan to rustle; or confer Swedish rusta to stir, make a riot, or English rush , v.]
1. To make a quick succession of small sounds, like the rubbing or moving of silk cloth or dry leaves.

He is coming; I hear his straw rustle .

Shak.

Prouder than rustling in unpaid-for silk.

Shak.

2. To stir about energetically; to strive to succeed; to bustle about. [ Slang, Western U.S.]

Rustle transitive verb To cause to rustle; as, the wind rustles the leaves.

Rustle noun A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.

When the noise of a torrent, the rustle of a wood, the song of birds, or the play of lambs, had power to fill the attention, and suspend all perception of the course of time.

Idler.

Rustler noun
1. One who, or that which, rustles.

2. A bovine animal that can care for itself in any circumstances; also, an alert, energetic, driving person. [ Slang, Western U.S.]

Rustless adjective Free from rust.

Rusty adjective [ Anglo-Saxon rustig .] [ Compar. Rustier ; superl. Rustiest. ]
1. Covered or affected with rust; as, a rusty knife or sword; rusty wheat.

2. Impaired by inaction, disuse, or neglect.

[ Hector,] in this dull and long-continued truce,
Is rusty grown.

Shak.

3. Discolored and rancid; reasty; as, rusty bacon.

4. Surly; morose; crusty; sullen. [ Obsolete or Prov. Eng.] " Rusty words." Piers Plowman.

5. Rust-colored; dark. " Rusty blood." Spenser.

6. Discolored; stained; not cleanly kept; filthy.

The rusty little schooners that bring firewood from the British provinces.

Hawthorne.

7. (Botany) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.

Rut noun [ French rut , Old French ruit , Latin rugitus a roaring, from rugire to roar; - - so called from the noise made by deer in rutting time.]
1. (Physiol.) Sexual desire or œstrus of deer, cattle, and various other mammals; heat; also, the period during which the œstrus exists.

2. Roaring, as of waves breaking upon the shore; rote. See Rote .

Rut intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Rutted ; present participle & verbal noun Rutting .] To have a strong sexual impulse at the reproductive period; -- said of deer, cattle, etc.

Rut transitive verb To cover in copulation. Dryden.

Rut noun [ variant of route .] A track worn by a wheel or by habitual passage of anything; a groove in which anything runs. Also used figuratively.

Rut transitive verb To make a rut or ruts in; -- chiefly used as a past participle or a participial adj.; as, a rutted road.

Ruta-baga noun (Botany) A kind of turnip commonly with a large and long or ovoid yellowish root; a Swedish turnip. See Turnip .

Rutaceous adjective [ Latin rutaceous , from ruta rue. See Rue the plant.] (Botany) Of or pertaining to plants of a natural order ( Rutaceæ ) of which the rue is the type, and which includes also the orange, lemon, dittany, and buchu.

Rutate (ru"tat) noun (Chemistry) A salt of rutic acid.

Ruth (ruth) noun [ From Rue , v. : confer Icelandic hryggð , hrygð .]
1. Sorrow for the misery of another; pity; tenderness. [ Poetic] "They weep for ruth ." Chaucer. "Have ruth of the poor." Piers Plowman.

To stir up gentle ruth ,
Both for her noble blood, and for her tender youth.

Spenser.

2. That which causes pity or compassion; misery; distress; a pitiful sight. [ Obsolete]

It had been hard this ruth for to see.

Chaucer.

With wretched miseries and woeful ruth .

Spenser.

Ruthenic adjective (Chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a higher valence as contrasted with ruthenious compounds.

Ruthenious adjective (Chemistry) Pertaining to, or containing, ruthenium; specifically, designating those compounds in which it has a lower valence as contrasted with ruthenic compounds.

Ruthenium noun [ New Latin So named from the Ruthenians , a Little Russian people, as coming from Russia, the metal having been found in the Ural mountains.] (Chemistry) 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 adjective Full of ruth ; as: (a) Pitiful; tender. (b) Full of sorrow; woeful. (c) Causing sorrow. Shak. -- Ruth"ful*ly , adverb

Ruthless adjective Having no ruth; cruel; pitiless.

Their rage the hostile bands restrain,
All but the ruthless monarch of the main.

Pope.

-- Ruth"less*ly , adverb -- Ruth"less*ness , noun

Rutic (ru"tĭk) adjective [ Confer Rutaceous .] (Chemistry) Pertaining to, or obtained from, rue ( Ruta ); as, rutic acid, now commonly called capric acid .

Rutilant adjective [ Latin rutilans , present participle of rutilare to have a reddish glow, from rutilus red: confer French rutilant .] Having a reddish glow; shining.

Parchments . . . colored with this rutilant mixture.

Evelyn.

Rutilate intransitive verb [ Latin rutilare , rutilatum .] To shine; to emit rays of light. [ Obsolete] Ure.

Rutile (ru"tĭl) noun [ Latin rutilus red, inclining to golden yellow.] (Min.) 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 (ru*tĭl"ĭ* a n) noun (Zoology) Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle ( Pelidnota punctata ).

Rutin (ru"tĭn) noun (Chemistry) A glucoside resembling, but distinct from, quercitrin. Rutin is found in the leaves of the rue ( Ruta graveolens ) and other plants, and obtained as a bitter yellow crystalline substance which yields quercitin on decomposition.

Rutter (rŭt"tẽr) noun [ Dutch ruiter a rider. Confer Ruttier .] A horseman or trooper. [ Obsolete]

Such a regiment of rutters
Never defied men braver.

Beau. & Fl.

Rutter noun [ From Rut .] That which ruts.

Rutterkin noun An old crafty fox or beguiler -- a word of contempt. [ Obsolete] Cotgrave.

Ruttier noun [ French routier , from route a road. See Route .] A chart of a course, esp. at sea. [ Obsolete]

Ruttish adjective Inclined to rut; lustful; libidinous; salacious. Shak. -- Rut"tish*ness , noun

Ruttle noun A rattling sound in the throat arising from difficulty of breathing; a rattle. [ Obsolete]

Rutty adjective Ruttish; lustful.

Rutty adjective Full of ruts; as, a rutty road.

Rutty adjective [ See Root .] Rooty. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Rutylene noun (Chemistry) A liquid hydrocarbon, C ₁₀ H ₁₈ , of the acetylene series. It is produced artificially.

Ryal adjective Royal. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Ryal noun See Rial , an old English coin.

Ryder noun
1. A clause added to a document; a rider. See Rider . [ Obsolete]

2. [ Dutch rijder , properly, a rider.] A gold coin of Zealand [ Netherlands] equal to 14 florins, about $ 5.60.

Rye noun [ Middle English rie , reie , Anglo-Saxon ryge ; akin to Icelandic rugr , Swedish råg , Danish rug , Dutch rogge , Old High German rocco , roggo , German rocken , roggen , Lithuanian rugei , Russian roje , and perhaps to Greek 'o`ryza rice. Confer Rice .]
1. (Botany) A grain yielded by a hardy cereal grass ( Secale cereale ), closely allied to wheat; also, the plant itself. Rye constitutes a large portion of the breadstuff used by man.

2. A disease in a hawk. Ainsworth.

Rye grass , Italian rye grass , (Botany) See under Grass . See also Ray grass , and Darnel . -- Wild rye (Botany) , any plant of the genus Elymus , tall grasses with much the appearance of rye.