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Definition of Dustings
1. dusting [n] - See also: dusting
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dustings
Literary usage of Dustings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Open Air by Richard Jefferies (1885)
"From the wing of the butterfly I looked involuntarily at the foxglove I had just
gathered; inside, the bells were thickly spotted—dots and dustings that ..."
2. Report on the Injurious Insects and Other Animals Observed in the Midland by Walter Edward Collinge (1906)
"Where two dustings were given, a distinctly marked diminution over those receiving
one dusting was shown; whilst where three dustings were applied the mite ..."
3. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1917)
"On the second he had a saddle horse to dustings. William H. Allen had a horse at
the same time. On the 3rd a saddle horse to Wheeler's, ..."
4. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington by Entomological Society of Washington (1914)
"Palpi white with very fine golden brown dustings on apical segment. ... Fore-wings
white with apical dustings shading from golden brown to black; ..."
5. The Mechanics' Magazine (1854)
"... and dustings, from bran, as it comes from the bolting apparatus. ... and separate
the flour, shorts, and dustings, from the bran, depositing each ..."
6. Investigations of the Aquatic Resources and Fisheries of Porto Rico by United States Bureau of Fisheries, Barton Warren Evermann, Millard Caleb Marsh, William A. Wilcox (1900)
"Color in alcohol: Pale-rosy, with dark dustings on head, humeral region, back,
and side; top and sides of head profusely covered with fine milky-white ..."
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