Results for dust
Definitions of dust:
part of speech: verb transitive
To brush away dust from; cover with powder; as, to dust a cake with sugar.
part of speech: verb transitive
To free from dust: to sprinkle with dust.
part of speech: noun
Fine dry particles of matter; a cloud or film of such fine particles; any fine powder; the particles into which a decaying body falls; pollen; a low condition.
part of speech: noun
Particles of matter so fine and dry that they may be raised and scattered by the wind; fine powder; earth; mortality; death; a low or mean condition.
part of speech: verb
To free from dust; to sprinkle with flour or powder.
part of speech: noun
Fine particles of anything like smoke or vapor: powder: earth: the grave, where the body becomes dust: a mean condition.
Usage examples for dust:
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Thou 'st got a skin o' dirt outside and all dry dust inside.
"More English Fairy Tales", Various -
Peggy heard Fanning shout somewhere out of the dust cloud.
"The Girl Aviators' Sky Cruise", Margaret Burnham -
No wagon might change its own place in the train after the start, dust or no dust
"The Covered Wagon", Emerson Hough -
We may be so much dust flying over London in a moment.
"The Blue Germ", Martin Swayne