Part 3544

<i>Bacon.</i>

<blockquote>When Jove in <b>dusky</b> clouds involves the sky. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and <b>dusky</b> grandeur. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Gloomy; sad; melancholy.</def>

<blockquote>This <b>dusky</b> scene of horror, this melancholy prospect. <i>Bentley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Intellectually clouded.</def>

<blockquote>Though <b>dusky</b> wits dare scorn astrology. <i>Sir P. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Dust</h1> <Xpage=462>

<hw>Dust</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[AS. <ets>dust</ets>; cf. LG. <ets>dust</ets>, D. <ets>duist</ets> meal dust, OD. <ets>doest</ets>, <ets>donst</ets>, and G. <ets>dunst</ets> vapor, OHG. <ets>tunist</ets>, <ets>dunist</ets>, a blowing, wind, Icel. <ets>dust</ets> dust, Dan. <ets>dyst</ets> mill dust; perh. akin to L. <ets>fumus</ets> smoke, E. <ets>fume</ets>. <ets><?/</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder; <as>as, clouds of <ex>dust</ex>; bone <ex>dust</ex>.</as></def>

<blockquote><b>Dust</b> thou art, and unto <b>dust</b> shalt thou return. <i>Gen. iii. 19.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's <b>dust</b>. <i>Byron.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A single particle of earth or other matter.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark> "To touch a <i>dust</i> of England's ground."

<i>Shak.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The earth, as the resting place of the dead.</def>

<blockquote>For now shall sleep in the <b>dust</b>. <i>Job vii. 21.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.</def>

<blockquote>And you may carve a shrine about my <b>dust</b>. <i>Tennyson.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Figuratively, a worthless thing.</def>

<blockquote>And by the merit of vile gold, dross, <b>dust</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Figuratively, a low or mean condition.</def>

<blockquote> raiseth up the poor out of the <b>dust</b>. <i>1 Sam. ii. 8.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Gold dust</def>; hence: (<mark>Slang</mark>) <def>Coined money; cash.</def>

<cs><col>Down with the dust</col>, <cd>deposit the cash; pay down the money.</cd> <mark>[Slang]</mark> "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 <i>down with his dust<i>, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading." <i>Fuller</i>. -- <col>Dust brand</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a fungous plant (<spn>Ustilago Carbo</spn>); -- called also <altname>smut</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Gold dust</col>, <cd>fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight.</cd> -- <col>In dust and ashes</col>. <cd>See under <er>Ashes</er>.</cd> -- <col>To bite the dust</col>. <cd>See under <er>Bite</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt></cd> -- <col>To</col> <col>raise, &or; kick up, dust</col>, <cd>to make a commotion.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark> -- <col>To throw dust in one's eyes</col>, <cd>to mislead; to deceive.</cd> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cs>

<h1>Dust</h1> <Xpage=462>

<hw>Dust</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Dusted</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Dusting</er>.]</wordforms>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; <as>as, to <ex>dust</ex> a table or a floor</as>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To sprinkle with dust.</def>