Log in or Sign up
water-dust love

water-dust

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A collective name for the extremely minute droplets or particles of water which compose clouds and haze.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word water-dust.

Examples

  • The fierce rollers of the spumous sea broke and recoiled, foaming upon the sandy beach, which they veiled with a haze of water-dust, almost concealing the smoke that curled from the mangrove-hedged

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • The liquid particles thus produced form a kind of _water-dust_ of exceeding fineness, which floats in the air, and is called a _cloud_.

    The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book Ontario. Ministry of Education

  • Rain is coarse water-dust formed by the aggregation of smaller globules, and varying in fineness from the

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 443, June 28, 1884 Various

  • The boat seemed to be standing still; nothing could be seen, not even the river alongside, only the water-dust flew and trickled, condensed, down their beards and faces.

    Lord Jim 1900

  • The boat seemed to be standing still; nothing could be seen, not even the river alongside, only the water-dust flew and trickled, condensed, down their beards and faces.

    Lord Jim 1899

  • It is high tide now and the water-dust flies up to the tower.

    The Crushed Flower and Other Stories Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev 1895

  • The heavy sheets of rain in the air, the misty water-dust raised by the drops as they struck the roofs, and the vapour steaming from the earth, drew over everything a veil invisible yet visible, which softened outlines like the gauze curtain in a theatre.

    The Nebuly Coat John Meade Falkner 1895

  • The boat seemed to be standing still; nothing could be seen, not even the river alongside, only the water-dust flew and trickled, condensed, down their beards and faces.

    Lord Jim Joseph Conrad 1890

  • The clouds you see floating in the sky are made of exactly the same kind of water-dust as the cloud from the kettle, and I wish to show you that this is also really the same as the invisible steam within the kettle.

    The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884

  • As soon as the water-dust is heated the heat-waves scatter it again into invisible particles, which float away into the room.

    The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884

Log in or sign up to add your own related words.

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.