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1597 G. Buchanan Comm. Virgil Aeneid vi. l. 303 in Trans. Edinb. Bibliogr. Soc. (1957) 3 286 Ferruginea..cumba, roustie hewit.

?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xxii. 223 A broad and ancient rusty-rested shield.

1671 T. Tenison Let. 6 Apr. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1970) VII. 555 The Earth, nigh ye fountain, & ye Grass, in ye channell wch conveighs ye water from ye well, is rusty-coloured.

1747 Journey through Part of Eng. & Scotl. (ed. 3) 179 Rusty-looking, rocky Mountains, attended with misty Rains and cutting Winds.

1797 R. Beilby & T. Bewick Hist. Brit. Birds I. 311 The sides, thighs, and vent are faintly marked with rusty-coloured streaks.

1837 P. Keith Bot. Lexicon 312 A number of rusty-looking spots or patches dispersed over the surface of the leaf.

1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 264 Marked with six rusty coloured longitudinal stripes.

1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 925/2 The snipe is certainly much better able to take care of himself than his rusty-coated cousin.

1912 W. Owen Let. 2 July (1967) 148 A taciturn, rusty-voiced man.

1917 W. Owen Poems (1963) 57 Finished fields, and wire-scrags rusty-old.

1937 E. Bishop Compl. Poems (1969) 201 The rusty-sided freighters.

1949 M. H. Heiner Hearing is Believing xv. 122 Surely we human beings cannot afford to exert ourselves any less strenuously for our fellow man than one little rusty-colored Irish terrier I know.

1995 P. Lynch Carriers (1996) iii. vii. 201 The gate was wire mesh too, topped with rusty-looking razor wire.