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Dusty

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 colour of dust; as a dusty white.

(Science: botany) dusty miller, a plant (Cineraria maritima); so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.

Origin: as. Dystig. See dust.