DUST, n.
1. Fine dry particles of earth or other matter, so attenuated that it may be raised and wafted by the wind powder as clouds of dust and seas of blood.
2. Fine dry particles of earth fine earth.
The peacock warmeth her eggs in the dust. Job 34 .
3. Earth unorganized earthy matter.
Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return. Genesis 3 .
4. The grave.
For now shall I sleep in the dust. Job 7 .
5. A low condition.
God raiseth the poor out of the dust. 1 Samuel 2 .
DUST,
1. To free from dust to brush, wipe or sweep away dust as, to dust a table or a floor.
2. To sprinkle with dust.
3. To levigate.
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