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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Rustic \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]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Rustic \Rus"tic\, 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.

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} (Zo["o]l.), any moth belonging to {Agrotis} and
allied genera. Their larv[ae] 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; awkward;
rough; coarse; plain; unadorned; simple; artless;
honest. See {Rural}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

rustic
adj 1: characteristic of rural life; "countrified clothes"; "rustic
awkwardness" [syn: {countrified}, {countryfied}]
2: awkwardly simple and provincial; "bumpkinly country boys";
"rustic farmers"; "a hick town"; "the nightlife of
Montmartre awed the unsophisticated tourists" [syn: {bumpkinly},
{hick}, {unsophisticated}]
3: used of idealized country life; "a country life of arcadian
contentment"; "a pleasant bucolic scene"; "charming in its
pastoral setting"; "rustic tranquility" [syn: {arcadian},
{bucolic}, {pastoral}]
4: characteristic of the fields or country; "agrestic
simplicity"; "rustic stone walls" [syn: {agrestic}]
n : an unsophisticated country person


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