Noah Webster
Dust
DUST, noun
1. Fine dry particles of earth or other matter, so attenuated that it may be raised and wafted by the wind; powder; as clouds of dust and seas of blood.
2. Fine dry particles of earth; fine earth.
The peacock warmeth her eggs in the dust Job 34:15.
3. Earth; unorganized earthy matter.
DUST thou art, and to dust shalt thou return. Genesis 3:14.
4. The grave.
For now shall I sleep in the dust Job 7:5.
5. A low condition.
God raiseth the poor out of the dust 1 Samuel 2:8.
DUST, verb transitive
1. To free from dust; to brush, wipe or sweep away dust; as, to dust a table or a floor.
2. To sprinkle with dust
3. To levigate.