Emily Dickinson Lexicon

DUST, n. [Sax. dust, dyst; Scot. dust; Teut. doest, duyst, dust, fine flour.]

1. Fine dry particles of earth or other matter, so attentuated that it may be raised and wafted by the wind; powder; as, clouds of dust and seas of blood.
2. Fine dry particles of earth; fine earth. The peacock warmeth her eggs in the dust. – Job xxxix.
3. Earth; unorganized earthy matter. Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return. – Gen. iii.
4. The grave. For now shall I sleep in the dust. – Job vii.
5. A low condition. God raiseth the poor out of the dust. – 1 Sam. ii.