Index of English words, starting with "ru"

(1) - Rust (v. t.) To impair by time and inactivity.
(2) - Rust (v. t.) To cause to contract rust; to corrode with rust; to affect with rust of any kind.
(3) - Rust (v. i.) To degenerate in idleness; to become dull or impaired by inaction.
(4) - Rust (v. i.) To be affected with the parasitic fungus called rust; also, to acquire a rusty appearance, as plants.
(5) - Rust (v. i.) To contract rust; to be or become oxidized.
(6) - Rust (n.) Corrosive or injurious accretion or influence.
(7) - Rust (n.) Foul matter arising from degeneration; as, rust on salted meat.
(8) - Rust (n.) A composition used in making a rust joint. See Rust joint, below.
(9) - Rust (n.) That which resembles rust in appearance or effects.
(10) - Rust (n.) A minute mold or fungus forming reddish or rusty spots on the leaves and stems of cereal and other grasses (Trichobasis Rubigo-vera), now usually believed to be a form or condition of the corn mildew (Puccinia graminis). As rust, it has solitary reddish spores; as corn mildew, the spores are double and blackish.
(11) - Rust (n.) The reddish yellow coating formed on iron when exposed to moist air, consisting of ferric oxide or hydroxide; hence, by extension, any metallic film of corrosion.

(1) - Rustic (n.) A rural person having a natural simplicity of character or manners; an artless, unaffected person.
(2) - Rustic (n.) An inhabitant of the country, especially one who is rude, coarse, or dull; a clown.
(3) - Rustic (a.) Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected.
(4) - Rustic (a.) Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress.
(5) - Rustic (a.) Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners.
(6) - Rustic (a.) Of or pertaining to the country; rural; as, the rustic gods of antiquity.

(1) - Rusticate (v. t.) To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on.
(2) - Rusticate (v. i.) To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize.