rustic

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And many a holy text around she strews,
That teach the rustic moralist to die. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

She had a rustic, woodland air. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rude; awkward; rough; unpolished; as, rustic manners. “A rustic muse.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Coarse; plain; simple; as, a rustic entertainment; rustic dress. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Simple; artless; unadorned; unaffected. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rustic moth (Zool.), any moth belonging to Agrotis and allied genera. Their larvae 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Rural; rude; unpolished; inelegant; untaught; awkward; rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless; honest. See Rural. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Rustic. “Rustical society.” Thackeray. -- Rus"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Rus"tic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To require or compel to reside in the country; to banish or send away temporarily; to impose rustication on. [ 1913 Webster ]

The town is again beginning to be full, and the rusticated beauty sees an end of her banishment. Idler. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Rusticated p. pr. & vb. n. Rusticating. ] [ L. rusticaticus, p. p. of rusticari to rusticate. See Rustic. ] To go into or reside in the country; to ruralize. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Arch.) Resembling rustic work. See Rustic work (a), under Rustic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rusticatio. ] 1. The act of rusticating, or the state of being rusticated; specifically, the punishment of a student for some offense, by compelling him to leave the institution for a time. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Arch.) Rustic work. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rusticitas: cf. F. rusticité. ] The quality or state of being rustic; rustic manners; rudeness; simplicity; artlessness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sweetness and rusticity of a pastoral can not be so well expressed in any other tongue as in the Greek, when rightly mixed and qualified with the Doric dialect. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Saxons were refined from their rusticity. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]