Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Matter in infinitesimal particles supposed to be floating throughout free space, and gradually settling upon the surfaces of the heavenly bodies.
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The meteor-dust phenomena is one which is supposedly lost on the humans, who are left wholly unaffected by the brain-enhancing powers of the dust, but the smaller creatures find themselves greatly improved.
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Sir W. Thomson, who shows that meteor-dust, accumulating at the rate of one foot in 4,000 years, would account for the remainder of retardation. [
Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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