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Wiping light cover
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dusting
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dusting may refer to: Clearing away house dust Crop dusting, the aerial application of fertilizers, pesticides, etc. "Dusting", a colloquial term for using pressurized dust-clearing spray as an intoxicative inhalant Dusting a bird.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A light snowfall. 2 A light covering of something. 3 The act of removing dust from, as a household chore. 4 A beating#Noun. vb. (present participle of dust English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dust \Dust\ (d[u^]st), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Dusted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Dusting .] To free from dust; to brush, wipe, or sweep away dust from; as, to dust a table or a floor. To sprinkle with dust. To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate. --Sprat. To dyst one's ...
Usage examples of dusting.
Clodius Afer demanded, dusting his palms as he strode back to the tribune.
A dusting of snow floated down as Alec and Seregil rattled past in their cart.
By the time he woke, Mrs Biggs was already busy in his outer room, moving furniture and dusting.
They were served sourdough bisquits and gravy with piss-poor coffee for breakfast, led next door to the courthouse, and allowed to wait a century or more until Judge Hiram Drysdale, a prune-faced old cuss with a beard and black robe that could have used a dusting, came in to hold court and collect some damned money for the township.
Silently, resentfully, she began dusting the gnocchi with flour, squeezing each piece to make an indentation with her finger.
Bob Hurst, who was dusting the counter and the phone for fingerprints.
Snowflakes continued to fall, dusting his hair and collecting on the long tips of lyng fur.
They stood on a high plateau composed mostly of boulders tumbled every which way, covered with lichens and mosses and a dusting of snow.
Only she could smell the fading fragrance of cold cream and muguet dusting powder still clinging to it.
Then a steadier fall, gently swirling, touching down, lifting up, touching down again, until the little square, or campo, outside the steamy window of the Gambero Rosso is aglow with a dusting of the purest white.
Soap, rotenone, oil spray, or homemade chilli-onion-garlic spray can be used, as well as a dusting with diatomaceous earth.
Ugly ambulant plants sidle up and press their tumid calyces against me, dusting my liners with pollen.
Ressler inserted the executive address list into place and Todd joined us in the control room, dusting his hands after putting the original, unedited disk packs to sleep, we were at last forced to sit down with each other as we used to, thrown back on the old, limited compensation of talk.
Lewis pointed to the french window, now liberally besprinkled with dusting powder.
She had no more blossomy openings dusting pollen over her man, neither any glistening young fruit where the petals used to be.