rust (n.)
- age
- algae
- autophyte
- bay
- bayard
- bean
- blast
- blight
- bracken
- breakup
- bronze
- brown
- burn
- cancer
- canker
- cardinal
- carmine
- carnation
- carnelian
- cerise
- cherry
- chestnut
- climber
- conferva
- copper
- corrosion
- corruption
- creeper
- crimson
- damask
- date
- decay
- decomposition
- degradation
- diatom
- dilapidation
- disintegration
- disorganization
- dissolution
- eat
- fade
- fern
- flaming
- fucus
- fungus
- glowing
- grapevine
- gulfweed
- henna
- herb
- hot
- infrared
- ivy
- kelp
- legume
- lentil
- liana
- lichen
- lipstick
- liverwort
- lurid
- madder
- mahogany
- maroon
- mildew
- mold
- molder
- moss
- moth
- mushroom
- must
- oxidation
- oxidization
- parasite
- pea
- pest
- phytoplankton
- puce
- puffball
- pulse
- red
- resolution
- roan
- rockweed
- rot
- rouge
- rubric
- ruby
- ruddle
- russet
- rusty
- saprophyte
- sargasso
- sargassum
- scarlet
- seaweed
- smut
- spoilage
- stammel
- succulent
- sunburn
- suntan
- tan
- toadstool
- vermilion
- vetch
- vine
- warm
- wine
- wine-colored
- worm
- wort
- wrack
rust (v.)
- age
- antiquate
- bay
- bean
- blast
- blight
- brazen
- bronze
- brown
- burn
- canker
- carmine
- cerise
- copper
- corrode
- crimson
- date
- decay
- eat
- embrown
- erode
- fade
- fossilize
- gnaw
- henna
- incarnadine
- inflame
- infuscate
- ivy
- lipstick
- madder
- maroon
- mildew
- miniate
- mold
- molder
- mushroom
- obsolesce
- oxidize
- perish
- pulse
- red
- red-ink
- redden
- roan
- rot
- rouge
- rubify
- rubric
- ruddle
- smut
- sunburn
- suntan
- superannuate
- tan
- vermilion
- vetch
- vine
- warm
- wine
- worm
- wrack
rust (adj.)
- adust
- age
- auburn
- bay
- bean
- brazen
- bronze
- bronzed
- brown
- brownish-red
- burn
- cancer
- cardinal
- carmine
- carnation
- cerise
- cherry
- cherry-red
- chestnut
- chestnut-brown
- coppery
- crimson
- damask
- date
- eat
- fiery
- flame-colored
- flaming
- foxy
- glowing
- hot
- inflamed
- infrared
- ivy
- laky
- liver-colored
- lurid
- maroon
- moth
- must
- red
- reddened
- reddish
- reddish-brown
- resolution
- roan
- rubicund
- ruby
- ruby-red
- ruddy
- russet
- rust-colored
- rust-red
- rusty
- scarlet
- succulent
- sunburned
- tan
- vermilion
- vinaceous
- vine
- warm
- wine-red
I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion.
Better to wear out than to rust out.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,—
As tho' to breathe were life!
