To spray or cover something with fine powder or liquid.
To remove dust; to clean by removing dust.
To leave; to rush off.
To kill.
Of a bird, to cover itself in sand or dry, dusty earth.
To reduce to a fine powder; to levigate.
To remove dust from.
The act of cleaning by dusting.
Submicron particles in outer space, largely silicates and carbon compounds, that contribute greatly to extinction at visible wavelengths.
The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body.
A disturbance or uproar.
A low or mean condition.
Something worthless.
Fine, dry particles of matter found in the air and covering the surface of objects, typically consisting of soil lifted up by the wind, pollen, hair, etc.
The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
A totally disconnected set of points with a fractal structure.
To collect molten glass on the end of a tool.
To grow gradually larger by accretion.
To bring stitches closer together.
To accumulate over time, to amass little by little.
To haul in; to take up.
To infer or conclude; to know from a different source.
To congregate, or assemble.
Especially, to harvest food.
To collect; normally separate things.
To bring parts of a whole closer.
To gain; to win.
To be filled with pus
To add pleats or folds to a piece of cloth, normally to reduce its width.
To bring together, or nearer together, in masonry, as for example where the width of a fireplace is rapidly diminished to the width of the flue.
The soffit or under surface of the masonry required in gathering. See gather (transitive verb).
A gathering.
The inclination forward of the axle journals to keep the wheels from working outward.
A blob of molten glass collected on the end of a blowpipe.
A plait or fold in cloth, made by drawing a thread through it; a pucker.