dust 
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. 
Gen. iii. 19. 
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. . . . 
For now shall I sleep in the dust. Job vii. 6, 21. 
Fair brows 
That long ago were dust. 
Eryant, Flood of Years. 
Hence 6f. A dead body, or one of the atoms 
that compose it ; remains. 
The bodies of the saints, what part of the earth or sea 
soever holds their dusts, shall not be detained in prison 
when Christ calls for them. . . . Hot a dust, not a bone, 
can be denied. Rev. T. Adams, Works, II. 106. 
Hereafter if one Duet of Me 
Mix'd with another's Substance be, 
'Twill leaven that whole Lump with love of Thee. 
Cowley, The Mistress, All over Love. 
7. A low condition, as if prone on the ground. 
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust. 1 Sam. ii. 8. 
8. Rubbish; ashes and other refuse. [Eng.] 
But when the parish dustman came, 
His rubbish to withdraw, 
He found more dust within the heap 
Than he contracted for ! Hood, Tim Turpin. 
A string of carts full of miscellaneous street and house 
rubbish, all called here [London] by the general name of 
dmt. New York Tribune, Sept. 9, 1879. 
9. Gold-dust; hence, money; cash. See phrases 
below. [Slang.] 10. Same as dust-brand Cos- 
mic dust. See cosmic. Down with the (his, your) 
dust, pay or deliver the money at once. 
The abbot down with his dust; and, glad he had es- 
caped so, returned to Reading, as somewhat lighter in 
purse, so much more merry in heart than when he came 
thence. Fuller, Ch. Hist., II. 218. 
Limb. I'll settle two hundred a year upon thee. . . . 
Aldo. Before George, son Limberham, you'l spoil all, 
if you underbid so. Come, down with your dust, man ; 
what, show a base mind when a fair Lady's in question ! 
Dnjden, Limberham, ii. 1. 
Come, fifty pounds here ; down with your dust. 
O'Keefe, Fontainebleau, ii. 3. 
Dust and ashes. See osAs. Founders' dust. See 
founder'^. Metallic dust, powdered oxids or filings of 
metals, used for giving a metallic luster to wall-papers, 
lacquered ware, etc. The metal-powders are washed, 
treated with chemicals, and heated, to obtain a variety of 
colors. To beat the dust. See beati.To bite the 
dust. See bite. To kick up a dust, to make a row; 
cause tumult or uproar. [Colloq.] To make one take 
the dust, in driving, to pass one on the road so as to 
throw the dust back toward him ; beat one in a race. To 
raise a dust, (a) To cause a cloud of dust to rise, as a 
fast-driven carriage, a gust of wind, etc. (6) To make con- 
fusion or disturbance; get up a dispute; create discord 
or angry discussion. [Colloq.] 
The Bishop saw there was small reason to raise such a 
dust out of a few indiscreet words. 
Bp. llacket, Abp. Williams, II. 61. 
By the help of these [men], they were able to raise a 
dust and make a noise ; to form a party, and set them- 
selves at the head of it. Bp. Atterlnmj, Sermons, I. iii. 
To throw dust in or Into one's eyes, to mislead, con- 
fuse, or dupe one. 
This is certainly the dust of Gold which you have thrown 
in the good Man's Eyes. Dryden, Spanish Kriar, iii. 1. 
dust 1 (dust), v. t. [< ME. dusten, intr., rise as 
dust, = Icel. dusta = Norw. dusta, tr., dust, 
sprinkle with dust, = Dan. dyste, sprinkle ; from 
the noun.] 1. To free from dust; brush, wipe, 
or sweep away dust from: as, to dust a table, 
floor, or room. 
Let me dust yo' a bit, William. Yo've been leaning 
against some whitewash, a'll be bound. 
Mrs. Gaskell, Sylvia's Lovers, xiv. 
2. To sprinkle with dust, or with something 
in the form of dust: as, to dust a cake with 
fine sugar; to dust a surface with white or 
yellow. 
Especially in one of those stand-stills of the air that fore- 
bode a change of weather, the sky is dusted with motes of 
fire of which the summer-watcher never dreamed. 
Lowell, Study Windows, p. 52. 
Insects in seeking the nectar would get dusted with pol- 
len, and would certainly often transport it from one flower 
to another. Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 95. 
To dust one, to make one take the dust (which see, under 
dust, .) To dust one's jacket, to give one a drubbing ; 
beat one as if for freeing him from dust, or so as to raise 
a dust. 
dust 2 (dust), v. [< ME. dusten, desten, throw, 
hurl, intr. rush, comp. adusten, throw (a differ- 
ent word from dusshen, throw down, dash: see 
dush), appar. of Scand. origin: < Icel. dusta, 
beat; cf. dustera, tilt, fight (Haldorsen, Cleas- 
by), dust, a blow (Haldorsen), = Sw. c?ws<=Dan. 
dyst, a tilt, bout, fight, = MLG. dust (zdust, sust), 
a tilt, a dance. Prob. allied to douse?, beat (see 
douse?). Hitherto confused by a natural figure 
with dust*-, from which, in def. I., 2, and II., 
it cannot now be entirely separated. It is 
possible that the two words are ult. connected. 
Cf. Gr. Kovletv, tr. cover with dust, intr. run (as 
horses or men), or march (as an army), making 
1804 
a dust in the act, i. e., 'dust.'] I.t trans. 1. 
To throw ; hurl. 
This inilde meiden ... toe [took] him bi the ateliche 
[grisly] top, ant hef him up ant duste him adunriht [down- 
right] to ther [the] eorthe. 
SI, Margherete (ed. Cockayne), p. 12. 
He iss Godd self, that duste death under him. 
Legend of St. Katherinc, 1. 1093. 
2. To strike ; beat. 
An engel duste hit a swuch dunt that hit bigon to clat- 
eren. ' Legend of St. Katherine, 1. 2025. 
Observe, my English gentleman, that blowes have a won- 
derful! prerogative in the feminine sex ; ... if ... she 
be good, to dust her often hath in it a singular . . . ver- 
tue. Benvenuto, Passengers' Dialogues (1612). 
II. intrans. To run; leave hastily ; scuttle; 
get out: as, to get up and dust; come, dust out 
of here. [Colloq. or slang.] 
Vrgan lepe vnfain 
Ouer the bregge [bridge] he deste. 
Sir Tristrem, iii. 9 (Minstrelsy, ed. Scott, V.). 
dust-ball (dust'bal), TO. A disease in horses in 
which a ball is sometimes formed in the intes- 
tinal canal, owing to over-feeding with the dust 
of corn or barley. Its presence is indicated by a hag- 
gard countenance, a distressed eye, a distended belly, and 
hurried respiration. 
dust-bin (dust'bin), n. A covered receptacle 
for the accumulated dust, ashes, and rubbish 
of a dwelling, usually placed in a cellar or in a 
yard. [Eng.] 
Villages, with their rows of hovels sandwiched in be- 
tween rows of dustbins. Contemporary Rev., LII. 128. 
dust-brand (dust'brand), . Smut. Also dust. 
dust-brush (dust'brush), n, A brush made of 
feathers, fine bristles, tissue-paper, or the like, 
for removing dust, as from furniture, walls, 
framed pictures, etc. 
dust-cart (dust'kart), . A cart for conveying 
dust, refuse, and rubbish from the streets. 
[Eng.] 
dust-chamber (dust'cham' / b6r), n. An in- 
closed flue or chamber filled with deflectors, in 
which the products of combustion from an ore- 
roasting furnace are allowed to settle, the 
heavier and more valuable portions being left 
in the dust-chamber, and the volatile portions 
passing out through the chimney or other es- 
cape. 
dust-collar (dust'kol"ar), n. A grooved ring 
or flange placed between the hub of a wheel 
and the journal, to hold a dust-guard and keep 
the axle-box clean. 
duster (dus'ter), . 1. One who dusts. 2. 
That which is used in dusting or removing 
dust, as a piece of cloth or a brush. A kind of 
cloth especially for use in the form of dusters is made of 
cotton, or of linen and cotton, generally twilled, woven 
plain or with a checked pattern, and sold by the yard, 
and also in separate squares, like handkerchiefs. 
We were taught to play the good housewife in the kitch- 
en and the pantry, and were well instructed in the con- 
duct of the broom and the duster. 
Watts, Education of Children and Youth, f viii. 
3. A fine sieve. 4. A machine for sifting 
dry poisons upon plants, to destroy insects. 
E. H. Knight. 5. A light overcoat or wrap 
worn to protect the clothing from dust, espe- 
cially in traveling. 
With February came the Carnival. . . . Hawthorne 
. . . accepted its liberties . . . with great good humor. 
He used to stroll along the streets, with a linen duster 
over his black coat. 
J. Hawthorne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, II. v. 
Set duster, a long broom, hearth-brush, or any dusting- 
brush. 
dust-guard (dust'gard), n. A thin piece of 
wood, leather, or fabric fitted to a journal-box 
to exclude dust from the axle and bearings, and 
to prevent the escape of the oil and waste from 
the box. 
The dust-guard is made of sycamore wood, and is either 
in one or two parts. Engineer, LXV. 297. 
dust-hole (dust'hol), n. A dust-bin. 
Our dusthole ain't been hemptied this week, so all the 
stuff is running into the sile. 
Quoted in First Year of a Silken Reign, p. 80. 
dustiness (dus'ti-nes), n. The state of being 
dusty. 
dusting-colors (dus'ting-kul // orz), n. pi. In 
printing, colors in the form of powder, made to 
be spread or dusted over an impression in ad- 
hesive varnish. Ultramarine blue and gold bronzes 
are common dusting-colors, and by this treatment show 
greater depth or brilliancy of color than when mixed with 
the varnish as a printing-ink. 
dustless (dust'les), a. [< dusti + -/ess.] Free 
from dust. 
A dustless path led to the door. 
L. Wallace, Ben Hur, p. 177. 
Dutch 
dust-louse (dust'lous), . An insect of the 
genus I'socus or family I'socidw. 
dustman (dust'man), n. ; pi. dustmen (-men). 
1. One whose employment is the removal of 
dust, rubbish, or garbage. 2. The genius of 
sleep in popular sayings and folklore: so 
named because the winking and eye-rubbing 
of a sleepy child are as if he had dust in his 
eyes Running or flying dustman, a man who re- 
moved dust from dust-lioles, without license, for the sake 
of what he could pick out of it. [Eng. ] 
At Marlborough Street one day early in November, 
1837, two of the once celebrated fraternity known as "Jly- 
ing dustmen " were charged with having emptied a dust- 
hole in Frith Street, without leave or licence of the con- 
tractor. Quoted in First Year of a Silken Reign, pp. 78, 79. 
dustoori (dus-to'ri), n. Same as dasturi. 
dust-pan (dust'pan), n. A utensil for collect- 
ing and removing dust brushed from the floor, 
furniture, etc. 
dust-pointt (dust'point), n. An old rural game, 
probably the same as push-pin. 
We to nine holes fall, 
At dust-point or at quoits. 
Drayton, Muse's Elysium, vi. 
Then let him be more manly ; for he looks 
Like a great school-boy that had been blown up 
Last night at dust-point. 
Beau, and Fl., Captain, iii. 3. 
dust-prig (dust 'prig), . A dust-hole thief; 
one who filched from dust-bins. [Eng.] 
The days of " dusting on the sly " seem to be rapidly 
passing away. The transportation of the renowned Bob 
Bonner, first of dust-prigs, added to the great fall in 
breeze, have caused this consummation. 
Quoted in First Year of a Silken Reign, p. 79. 
dust-prigging (dust'prig"ing), n. Filching or 
stealing from dust-bins. [Eng.] 
In the palmy days of dust-prigging, [men] fearlessly en- 
countered the perils of Tothill Fields and the treadmill 
in pursuit of their unlawful vocation. 
Quoted in First Year of a Silken Reign, p. 79. 
dust-shot (dust'shot), n. The smallest size of 
shot. Also called mustard-seed. 
Mustard-seed or dust-shot, as it is variously called. 
Corns. 
dust-storm (dust'storm), n. A storm of wind 
which raises dense masses of dust into the air, 
as on one of the great deserts of Africa or Asia. 
dustuck, dustuk (dus'tuk), n. [Anglo-Ind., < 
Hind, dastak, a passport, permit, < Hind, dast, 
< Pers. dast, the hand.] In India, a customs 
permit. 
Mir Jaflr pledged himself to permit all goods of every 
kind and sort to be carried duty free, under the company's 
dustuck. J. T. Wheeler, Short Hist. India, p. 295. 
dust-whirl (dust'hwerl), n. A whirl of dust, 
made by an eddy of wind. 
In defining this phenomenon [the whirlwind] it will be 
best perhaps that you should be asked to recall the occur- 
rence, on any warm day, of the formation of a dust-whirl 
as it suddenly bursts upon you in the open street. 
Jour. Franklin Inst., CXXI. 247. 
dusty (dus'ti), a. [< ME. dusty, dusti, < AS. 
dystig, dusty, < dust, dust : see dust 1 and -jl.] 
1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust ; re- 
duced to dust ; clouded with dust : as, a dusty 
road; dusty matter; dusty windows. 
All our yesterdays have lighted fools 
The way to dusty death. Shak., Macbeth, v. 5. 
The house thro' all the level shines, 
Close-latticed to the brooding heat, 
And silent in its dusty vines. 
Tennyson, Mariana in the South. 
Nothing ever gave me such a poignant sense of death 
and dusty oblivion as those crumbling tombs overshadow- 
ing the clamorous aiid turbulent life on the hillside. 
T. B. Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 245. 
2. Like dust; of the hue of dust ; clouded: as, a 
dusty white or red. 3. Covered with minute, 
dust-like scales, as the wings of a butterfly. 
Westwood. 
dusty-foot (dus'ti-fut), n. Same as piepoudre. 
dusty-miller (dus'ti-iniFer), n. 1. The auricu- 
la, Primula Auricula : so called from the white 
mealiness upon the leaves. 2. The Seneeto 
Cineraria, a common cultivated foliage-plant 
which is covered with white tomentum. 
Dutch (duch), a. and n. [Early mod. E. also 
Dutche, Doutclte, Duche; < ME. Vulclie, l>n<-l,<- 
(Hollandish or German), < MD. diii/U-ch (OD. 
dietisc), D. tliiiterh, Dutch, Hollandish (hoog- 
iliiitneh, High Dutch, German), = MLG. diidesch, 
LG. diidesk = OS. tliiudistc = ORQ. diiitisl; MHG. 
diutisch, diutseh, diimcli, tiittixcli, tiutscli, tiuseh, 
MG. diidesch, dutiscli, tutiscli, G. deutscJi, until re- 
cently also tt'Htneli, = Icel. Thytlwerskr, tliylJi- 
erskr, tliijeskr (perverted forms), later and mod. 
Icel. tltyzkr = Sw. 1ysk = Dan. tijdsk (the Scaud. 
