2. Fig.: To impair by time and inactivity. Johnson.

Rust"ful (?), a. Full of rust; resembling rust; causing rust; rusty.

"Rustful sloth." Quarles.

Rus"tic (?), a. [L. rusticus, fr. rus, ruris, the country: cf. F.

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.

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