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:

• 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