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afted 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.

An old rural game. With any boy at dust-point they shall play. Peacham (1620).

A brush of feathers, bristles, or hair, for removing dust from furniture.

One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust. Specifically:

The state of being dusty.

Without dust; as a dustless path.

One whose employment is to remove dirt and defuse. Gay.

A shovel-like utensil for conveying away dust brushed from the floor.

Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust. And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Shak.

Inflamed or scorched; fiery. "The Libyan air adust." Milton.

Burnt; adust. [Obs.] Howell.

That may be burnt. [Obs.]

The act of burning, or heating to dryness; the state of being thus heated or dried. [Obs.] Harvey.

To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust. Sherwood.

Cupel dust. [Obs.] Powder of steel, or copple dust. Bacon.

One who kicks up the dust; a streetwalker; a low manner. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Of or pertaining to the Hindoos or their language. -- n.

Consisting in industry; pertaining to industry, or the arts and products of industry; concerning those employed in labor, especially in manual labor, and their wages, duties, and rights. The great ideas of industrial development and economic social amelioration. M. Arnold.

Devotion to industrial pursuits; labor; industry. J. S. Mill.

With reference to industry.