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Definition of Bedust
1. v. t. To sprinkle, soil, or cover with dust.
Definition of Bedust
1. Verb. (archaic) To cover with dust. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bedust
1. to cover with dust [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedust
Literary usage of Bedust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson, John Walker, Robert S. Jameson (1828)
"To bedust, (be-dnst') ». a. To sprinkle with dust. BEDWARD, (bed'-ward) ad.
Toward bod. To BED WARF, '(be-dwarf) va To stunt in growth, or render a thing ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1854)
"... What crowds bedust it in our day ! Faith! they 4e laid raj К and engines piny
T'c De. ..."
3. The Metropolitan (1836)
"Any day that this functionary happens to be out of humour with himself, or with
the inhabitants, ho can countermand tbe irrigation, and bedust them with ..."
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