Dusting

Verb

Definitions

1.Verbpresent participle and gerund of dust

2.NounA light snowfall.

"The rooves are covered with a dusting of snow."

3.NounA light covering of something.

"Cover the cake with a dusting of confectioner's sugar."

4.NounThe act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore.

"Tuesday is the day when I do the dusting."

5.NounA beating.

6.NounA maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dustbathing.

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