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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, clouds of dust; bone dust. Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. Gen. iii. 19. Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust. Byron.…

ty is a graver term than obligation. A duty hardly exists to do trivial things; but there may be an obligation to do them. C. J. Smith.

l phenomena by a theory of dynamics. Those who would resolve matter into centers of force may be said to constitute the school of dynamists. Ward (Dyn. Sociol. ).

Not procreating or breeding freely; as, one race may be dysgenesic with respect to another. Darwin.

to eulogistic. There is no course of conduct for which dyslogistic or eulogistic epithets may be found. J. F. Stephen. The paternity of dyslogistic -- no bantling, but now almost a centenarian -- is adjudged to that genius of common sense, Jeremy Bentham. Fitzed. Hall.

Reach of the ear; distance at which words may be heard. Dryden.

With ease; without difficulty or much effort; as, this task may be easily performed; that event might have been easily foreseen.

A hard, black variety of vulcanite. It may be cut and polished, and is used for many small articles, as combs and buttons, and for insulating material in electric apparatus.

A game at cards, played usually by two persons, in which the players may discard any or all of the cards dealt and receive others from the pack.

omaly. -- Eccentric chuck (Mach.), a lathe chuck so constructed that the work held by it may be altered as to its center of motion, so as to produce combinations of eccentric combinations of eccentric circles. -- Eccentric gear. (Mach.) (a) The whole apparatus, strap, and other parts, by which the motion of an eccent…

al power. The body is erect and inflexible; the pulsation and breathing are not affected. Mayne.

ication of his church. Bp. Hall. Out of these magazines I shall supply the town with what may tend to their edification. Addison.

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May. That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it. Shak.

rile efforts. Mrs. Browning If they find the old governments effete, worn out, . . . they may seek new ones. Burke.

ts natural vessel, either by rupture of the vessel, or by exudation through its walls. It may pass into the substance of an organ, or issue upon a free surface.

An addition. [R.] Clumsy ekes that may well be spared. Geddes.

ng a high or intense degree of a quality, but not excluding the idea that an equal degree may exist in other cases.

The base of a window casing, on which the elbows may rest.

Chosen to an office, but not yet actually inducted into it; as, bishop elect; governor or mayor elect.

society, as by ballot, uplifted hands, or viva voce; as, the election of a president or a mayor. Corruption in elections is the great enemy of freedom. J. Adams.