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Pronunciation : Dust"y
Part of Speech : a.
Etymology : [AS. dystig. See Dust.]
Definition : 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.
[Compar. Dustier; superl. Dustiest.]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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