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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Rusty \Rust"y\, adjective [AS. 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. [Obs. 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. (Bot.) Resembling, or covered with a substance resembling, rust; affected with rust; rubiginous.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
rusty
adjective
1: covered with or consisting of rust; "a rusty machine"; "rusty deposits"
2: of the color of rust [syn: {rust}]
3: impaired in skill by neglect [syn: {out of practice(p)}]
4: ancient; "hoary jokes" [syn: {hoary}] [also: {rustiest}, {rustier}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
182 Moby Thesaurus words for "rusty": Titian, Titian-red, a stranger to, adust, anile, auburn, bay, bay-colored, bayard, brazen, bricky, bronze, bronze-colored, bronzed, brownish-red, cardinal, carmine, carnation, carnelian, castaneous, cerise, cherry, cherry-colored, cherry-red, chestnut, chestnut-brown, copper, copper-colored, coppery, corroded, crabbed, crimson, crumbling, cupreous, damask, debilitated, decrepit, dilapidated, disaccustomed, doddered, doddering, doddery, dry, dusty, dyspeptic, eaten, eroded, feeble, ferruginous, fiery, fire-red, flame-colored, flame-red, flaming, fossilized, foxy, fusty, gerontal, gerontic, glowing, gone to seed, grating, gules, henna, hoarse, hot, hot-tempered, ignorant, ill-humored, ill-natured, incarmined, inexperienced, infirm, inflamed, infrared, iron-red, jarring, lake-colored, laky, lateritious, liver-brown, liver-colored, livid-brown, lobster-red, lurid, mahogany, maroon, mildewed, moldering, moldy, moss-grown, mossbacked, moth-eaten, mummylike, musty, new to, on the downgrade, out of condition, out of shape, out of training, palsied, papery-skinned, port-wine, puce, rasping, raucous, ravaged with age, red, red-dyed, red-looking, reddened, reddish, reddish-amber, reddish-brown, rickety, roan, rough, rubicund, rubiginous, rubric, rubricose, ruby, ruby-colored, ruby-red, ruddied, ruddy, rufescent, rufous, rugged, ruined, ruinous, run to seed, russet, russety, rust, rust-cankered, rust-colored, rust-eaten, rust-red, rust-worn, scarlet, senile, shaky, shriveled, slipping, soft, stale, stammel, stiff, stricken in years, strident, sunburned, terra-cotta, tile-red, time-scarred, timeworn, tottering, tottery, unaccustomed, unacquainted with, unconversant with, unfamiliar with, unhabituated, unhardened, uninured, unpracticed, unseasoned, untrained, unused, unused to, unwonted, vermilion, vinaceous, warm, weak, weaned, wine, wine-colored, wine-red, withered, wizened, worn
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