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Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.

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  1. superl. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; also, reducing to dust.
  2. superl. Like dust; of the color of dust; as a dusty white.
  3. adj. covered with a layer of dust
  4. adj. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
  5. 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.
  6. j:100 s. covered with a layer of dust