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dust·y a. [Compar. Dustier superl. Dustiest ]
1. Filled, covered, or sprinkled with dust; clouded with dust; as, a dusty table; a dusty attic; also, reducing to dust.
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. --Shak.
2. Like dust; of the color of dust; as, a dusty white.
Dusty miller Bot., a plant (Cineraria maritima); -- so called because of the ashy-white coating of its leaves.
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dusty
adj : covered with a layer of dusty; "a dusty pile of books" [syn:
dust-covered]
[also: dustiest, dustier]