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adjective

dusty adj. (compar. dustier; superl. dustiest)

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

Like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white.

Dusty miller (Bot.), a plant (Cineraria maritima); so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

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Etymology of 'Dusty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Dusty" Quotes from Famous Books

... ten: there lies the hot and dusty road before you, without shelter of any kind, and the sun pours down his fiery beams; no cloud, no intermission. If a breeze blows, it may be hotter than from the mouth of a furnace. Well, courage; step out, it ...

— Australia, its history and present condition • William Pridden

... got some bacon and a half dozen potatoes from a locker under the shelf, produced a greasy frying-pan from a dusty corner and went outside ...

— The Hilltop Boys - A Story of School Life • Cyril Burleigh

... had installed themselves in the little arbor at the remote end of the tiny garden, where they were shielded by the dusty vines from any observation, and thus the quarter hours and the halves slipped by unheeded. The artist told her again of his aspirations to paint,—"the real thing," to "go in for the big stunts." Milly listened sympathetically. ...

— One Woman's Life • Robert Herrick

... drawing his overcoat over him, he fell immediately into a deep sleep. He awoke in a high fever and delirious. Some days later he came to himself, rose and went out. It was eight o'clock, and the sun had disappeared. The heat was as intolerable as before, but he inhaled the dusty, fetid, infected town air with greediness. And now his head began to spin round, and a wild expression of energy crept into his inflamed eyes and pale, meager, wan face. He did not know, did not even think, ...

— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various

... it's burrow, and when I approached it thus nearly, it couched itself down like a cat looking immediately at me as if it designed to spring on me. I took aim at it and fired, it instantly disappeared in it's burrow; I loaded my gun and exmined the place which was dusty and saw the track from which I am still further convinced that it was of the tiger kind. whether I struck it or not I could not determine, but I am almost confident that I did; my gun is true and I had a steady rest by means of my espontoon, which I have found very serviceable to me in this way ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

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