Dust: alternatives and connections

To adorn with spangles; to dot or sprinkle with something brilliant or glittering.

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A small pool of standing water; a puddle.

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To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat;…

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To strike and dash about, as water, mud, etc.; to plash.

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To spatter; to splash.

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A small shoot or branch; a twig.

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To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.

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An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

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To render obscure by making the form or outline of confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manu…

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Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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To relieve of a charge, load, or burden; to empty of a load or cargo; to unburden; to unload; as, to discharge a vessel.

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Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.

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To particularize.

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Waste or rejected matter; anything worthless; valueless stuff; trash; especially, fragments of building materials or fallen buildings; ruins; debris.

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Something scraped off; hence, a small piece; a bit; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion.

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To overspread with anything unctuous, viscous, or adhesive; to daub; as, to smear anything with oil.

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A suffocating smoke.

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A stain; a dirty spot.

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Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.

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That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.

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Small coal; also, coal dust; culm.

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A marriage portion; dowry.

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A marriage portion; dowry.

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A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.

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A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.

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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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To draw, or attempt to draw, toward one; to draw forcibly.

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To move away from the position occupied; to cause to change place; to displace; as, to remove a building.

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Taken.

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To take back or away, as what has been bestowed or enjoyed; to draw back; to cause to move away or retire; as, to withdraw aid, favor, capital, or th…

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Broken and detached fragments, taken collectively; especially, fragments detached from a rock or mountain, and piled up at the base.

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A mass of substances worn off from solid bodies by attrition, and reduced to small portions; as, diluvial detritus.

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To scatter abroad; to drive to different parts; to distribute; to diffuse; to spread; as, the Jews are dispersed among all nations.

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A marriage portion; dowry.

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A fragment of any solid substance; a thick piece. See Chunk.

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Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc., used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls.

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To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.

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To scatter in small drops or particles, as water, seed, etc.

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