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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dusty \Dust"y\, a. [Compar. {Dustier}; superl. {Dustiest}.] [AS.
dystig See {Dust}.]
1. 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.
2. 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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
dusty
adj : covered with a layer of dusty; "a dusty pile of books" [syn:
{dust-covered}]
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