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t. [ floor, room. or sweep away dust from: as, to dust a table, 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 forebode 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 pollen, 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, n.). - 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. IMG:content-0110.png:[blocks in formation] Vrgan lepe vnfain Ouer the bregge [bridge] he deste . Sir Tristrem , iii. 9 (Minstrelsy, ed. Scott, V.). dust-ball (dust'bål), n. 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 haggard countenance, a distre ed eye, a distended belly, and hurried respiration. dust-bin (dust'bin), n. for the accumulated dust, ashes, and rubbish of a dwelling, usually placed in a cellar or in a yard. [Eng.] A covered receptacle Villages, with their rows of hovels sandwiched in between rows of dustbins . Contemporary Rev. , LII. 128. dust-brand (dust'brand), n. Smut. Also dust. dust-brush (dust'brush), n. A brush made of feathers, fine bristles, ti ue-paper, or the like, for removing dust, as from furniture, walls, framed pictures, etc. dust-cart (dust'kärt), n. A cart for conveying dust, refuse, and rubbish from the streets. [Eng.] An in Dutch