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/dˈəsti mˈɪlər/ Listen

adjective

dusty adj. (compar. dustier; superl. dustiest)

Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; a dusty attic; also, reducing to dust. "And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death."

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.

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"Dusty miller" Quotes from Famous Books

... life, isn't thee? Don't remember me, but I do thee. Gave me a ride once after that little piebald nag thee swopped Oliver's calf for. Thee sees I know thee, if thee has forgot me and how my floury clothes hit the black jacket thee wore, that day, and dusted it well, 'Dusty miller' thee laughed and called me, sayin' that was some sort of plant grows in gardens. But I knew that. Dorcas has a whole bed of it under ...

— Dorothy's House Party • Evelyn Raymond

... obstinate old Dusty Miller! Why don't you own up that Ruthie's more good to you than ...

— Ruth Fielding and the Gypsies - The Missing Pearl Necklace • Alice B. Emerson

... corn, millions of eggs and skeins of linen and woollen yarn have been bartered at Belfield Green by the country folks, in exchange for rum, molasses, tea, coffee, salt, and codfish, enough to freight the royal navy. Time was when folks came twenty miles to Belfield post-office, and when a dusty miller and his men, at the old red mill standing on the brook at the foot of the valley, took toll from half the grists in Hillsdale County. But that was long ago, when people who lived twenty miles away from Hartford went to the city scarcely twice in a dozen ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. I, No. 1, Nov. 1857 • Various