'Dust' definitions:
Definition of 'dust'
From: WordNet
noun
Fine powdery material such as dry earth or pollen that can be blown about in the air; "the furniture was covered with dust"
noun
The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up [syn: debris, dust, junk, rubble, detritus]
noun
Free microscopic particles of solid material; "astronomers say that the empty space between planets actually contains measurable amounts of dust"
verb
Remove the dust from; "dust the cabinets"
verb
Rub the dust over a surface so as to blur the outlines of a shape; "The artist dusted the charcoal drawing down to a faint image"
verb
Cover with a light dusting of a substance; "dust the bread with flour"
verb
Definition of 'Dust'
From: GCIDE
- Dust \Dust\ (d[u^]st), n. [AS. dust; cf. LG. dust, D. duist meal dust, OD. doest, donst, and G. dunst vapor, OHG. tunist, dunist, a blowing, wind, Icel. dust dust, Dan. dyst mill dust; perh. akin to L. fumus smoke, E. fume. [root]71.]
- 1. Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled to minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust. [1913 Webster]
- Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. --Gen. iii. 19. [1913 Webster]
- Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A single particle of earth or other matter. [R.] "To touch a dust of England's ground." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The earth, as the resting place of the dead. [1913 Webster]
- For now shall sleep in the dust. --Job vii. 21. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body. [1913 Webster]
- And you may carve a shrine about my dust. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- 5. Figuratively, a worthless thing. [1913 Webster]
- And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Figuratively, a low or mean condition. [1913 Webster]
- [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust. --1 Sam. ii. 8. [1913 Webster]
- 7. Gold dust; hence: (Slang) Coined money; cash. [1913 Webster]
- Down with the dust, deposit the cash; pay down the money. [Slang] "My lord, quoth the king, presently deposit your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the days of your life. . . . The Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading." --Fuller.
- Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant (Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut.
- Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight.
- In dust and ashes. See under Ashes.
- To bite the dust. See under Bite, v. t.
- To raise dust, or
- To kick up dust, to make a commotion. [Colloq.]
- To throw dust in one's eyes, to mislead; to deceive. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dust'
From: GCIDE
- Dust \Dust\ (d[u^]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Dusting.]
- 1. To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To sprinkle with dust. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate. --Sprat. [1913 Webster]
- To dyst one's jacket, to give one a flogging. [Slang.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Dust'
From: Easton
- Dust Storms of sand and dust sometimes overtake Eastern travellers. They are very dreadful, many perishing under them. Jehovah threatens to bring on the land of Israel, as a punishment for forsaking him, a rain of "powder and dust" (Deut. 28:24).
- To cast dust on the head was a sign of mourning (Josh. 7:6); and to sit in dust, of extreme affliction (Isa. 47:1). "Dust" is used to denote the grave (Job 7:21). "To shake off the dust from one's feet" against another is to renounce all future intercourse with him (Matt. 10:14; Acts 13:51). To "lick the dust" is a sign of abject submission (Ps. 72:9); and to throw dust at one is a sign of abhorrence (2 Sam. 16:13; comp. Acts 22:23).
Synonyms of 'dust'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- acres,
- air,
- air pollution,
- alluvion,
- alluvium,
- altercation,
- arable land,
- ashes,
- attritus,
- bamboozle,
- barrel,
- beat,
- beeline,
- begrime,
- bemire,
- bemud,
- besmoke,
- besprinkle,
- bickering,
- biscuit,
- bleach,
- body,
- bone,
- bones,
- bowdlerize,
- bran,
- bread,
- bubble,
- cadaver,
- carcass,
- carrion,
- chaff,
- chicane,
- chip,
- clamjamfry,
- clay,
- clean,
- clean out,
- clean up,
- cleanse,
- clear out,
- clobber,
- clod,
- cobweb,
- collateral,
- cork,
- corpse,
- corpus delicti,
- cosmic dust,
- cracker,
- crowbait,
- crumb,
- crumble,
- crust,
- culm,
- dead body,
- dead man,
- dead person,
- deadwood,
- debris,
- decedent,
- delouse,
- depurate,
- deterge,
- dirt,
- dirty,
- dirty up,
- dishwater,
- dispute,
- dot,
- down,
- draff,
- dredge,
- dregs,
- drub,
- dry bones,
- dry land,
- dry-clean,
- dust ball,
- dust off,
- dustup,
- earth,
- efflorescence,
- embalmed corpse,
- ether,
- expurgate,
- fairy,
- falling-out,
- fallout,
- farina,
- feather,
- filings,
- flimflam,
- flit,
- flour,
- flue,
- fluff,
- fly,
- foam,
- food for worms,
- fool,
- fracas,
- freehold,
- freshen,
- froth,
- fuzz,
- garbage,
- gash,
- glebe,
- gossamer,
- grassland,
- grime,
- grits,
- groats,
- ground,
- gull,
- hassle,
- hasten,
- hoax,
- hogwash,
- hoodwink,
- hotfoot,
- husks,
- hustle,
- junk,
- kittens,
- lambaste,
- land,
- landholdings,
- larrup,
- late lamented,
- leavings,
- lees,
- lick,
- lint,
- lithosphere,
- litter,
- lumber,
- lustrate,
- marginal land,
- marl,
- meal,
- mire,
- mold,
- mortal remains,
- mote,
- muck,
- muck up,
- mud,
- muddy,
- mummification,
- mummy,
- offal,
- offscourings,
- organic remains,
- orts,
- overwhelm,
- parchment,
- parings,
- pepper,
- potsherds,
- powder,
- powdering,
- purge,
- purify,
- pussies,
- raff,
- rags,
- raspings,
- real estate,
- real property,
- reform,
- refuse,
- region,
- regolith,
- relics,
- reliquiae,
- remains,
- riffraff,
- row,
- rubbish,
- rubble,
- run,
- run-in,
- sawdust,
- scavenge,
- scourings,
- scrap,
- scrap iron,
- scraps,
- scum,
- shards,
- shavings,
- shellac,
- shoddy,
- skeleton,
- slack,
- slag,
- slime,
- slop,
- slops,
- smoke,
- smut,
- sod,
- soil,
- soot,
- spatter,
- speck,
- speckle,
- speed,
- splatter,
- sponge,
- spot,
- sprinkle,
- sprinkling,
- spruce,
- spume,
- steam-clean,
- stick,
- stiff,
- straw,
- stubble,
- stud,
- subaerial deposit,
- subsoil,
- sweep out,
- sweepings,
- sweeten,
- swill,
- tares,
- tenement of clay,
- terra,
- terra firma,
- terrain,
- territory,
- the country,
- the dead,
- the deceased,
- the defunct,
- the departed,
- the loved one,
- thistledown,
- thrash,
- tidy,
- topsoil,
- trash,
- trick,
- truck,
- wastage,
- waste,
- waste matter,
- wastepaper,
- weeds,
- whiten,
- wipe,
- wipe off,
- wipe out,
- wipe up,
- woodland
Words containing 'Dust'
- Down with the dust,
- Dusted,
- Dusting,
- Bone dust,
- Brick dust,
- Copple dust,
- Cupel dust,
- Dust brand,
- Fig dust,
- Fonder's dust,
- Gold dust,
- In dust and ashes,
- Malt dust,
- Rag dust,
- To beat the dust,
- To bite the dust,
- To kick up dust,
- To lick the dust,
- To raise dust,
- angel dust,
- bite the dust,
- chalk dust,
- cosmic dust,
- diamond dust,
- dust bag,
- dust bowl,
- dust cloud,
- dust coat,
- dust contamination,
- dust cover,
- dust devil,
- dust jacket,
- dust mop,
- dust sheet,
- dust storm,
- dust wrapper,
- dusting powder,
- hell dust,
- interplanetary dust,
- radioactive dust,
- To dust one's jacket,
- crop-dusting,
- dust-back,
- dust-covered,
- dust-point,
- To throw dust in one's eyes,
- dust-back pitch