RUSTICS
Noun
rustics
plural of rustic
Source: Wiktionary
RUSTIC
Rus"tic, a. Etym: [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. 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 (Zoöl.),
any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larvæ are
called cutworms. See Cutworm.
– Rustic work. (a) (Arch.) 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; artless; honest.
See Rural.
Rus"tic, n.
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]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition