Though dusky wits dare scorn astrology.
Sir P. Sidney.
Dust (dst), n. [AS. dust; cf. LG. dust, D. duist meal dust, OD. doest, donst, and G. dunst vapor, OHG. tunist, dunist, a blowing, wind, Icel. dust dust, Dan. dyst mill dust; perh. akin to L. fumus smoke, E. fume. √71.] 1. Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled to minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust.
Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
Gen. iii. 19.
Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust.
Byron.
2. A single particle of earth or other matter. [R.] "To touch a dust of England's ground." Shak.