(n.) One who, or that which, dusts; a utensil that frees from dust.
(n.) A revolving wire-cloth cylinder which removes the dust from rags, etc.
(n.) A blowing machine for separating the flour from the bran.
(n.) A light over-garment, worn in traveling to protect the clothing from dust.
Example Sentences:
(1) Grace Coddington, Dame Helen Mirren, Laura Mvula, and Karen Elson, in the pink duster coat that proved so popular for M&S.
(2) As a visual stimulus, a feather duster moving for 2 min in front of the cats eyes was used.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A duster coat from Monki.
(4) Well, it appears that acting like a cock has finally rendered Morgan the feather duster.
(5) The patient was a crop duster with numerous episodes of acute organophosphate intoxication and chronic organophosphate exposure.
(6) Last year, DKNY launched a Ramadan collection – a full range, featuring duster coats, leather jackets and silk jogging bottoms – while, next month, Armani will release a box of Ramadan chocolates.
(7) Look at him, dumbly stuffing six on to each hand like a useless Swiss knuckle-duster.
(8) The visual stimulus was a feather duster which was moved for 4-5 min in front of the cats eyes.
(9) Was there ever any danger that it would quit a cosy jurisdiction with feather-duster regulation and prosecutions as rare as hen’s teeth?
(10) It reminded me of the field in North by Northwest, where Cary Grant is strafed by a crop duster.
(11) You will need: Wax filler stick Coloured wood stain White spirit Beeswax Duster or soft cloth Fine brush 1) If you have a fairly deep scratch on a flat surface such as a table top, wax works best.
(12) Apply beeswax lightly to the scratch and the surrounding area and buff with a duster.
(13) A man walks down the street wearing a dark fedora at a jaunty angle and chatting into a mobile phone; young men lounge by a wall, like young men everywhere, all high-fives and exaggerated gestures, except that one carries an AK-47; children stand ranged like bottles on a crumbling wall as a kite soars above; donkeys with pretty pink flowers fastened to the ropes around their noses pull carts; minibuses sporting feather dusters in their bonnets groan under the weight of too many passengers and too many bags; a boy in a blue T-shirt raises two fingers to his head in salute and smiles.
(14) Colombia says rise in coca cultivation shows why it was right to stop spraying Read more The defense minister, Luis Carlos Villegas, said instead of dumping glyphosate from American-piloted crop dusters , as Colombia did for two decades, the herbicide will now be applied manually by eradication crews on the ground.
(15) "O ne day you're the cock of the walk, the next a feather duster" reads Piers Morgan's bio on Twitter .
(16) But others insist the EPBC Act, introduced by John Howard’s government, is robust legislation that can either be a heavy stick or a feather duster, depending on its application.
(17) But we don't get the chance because he's off again, brushing aside the camera crew and actioning change with a stately swipe of his feather duster ("Eurk … don't like this table … nyarrph").
(18) Permethrin, a pyrethroid insecticide, applied on two plots with a pressurized hand-held duster at mean rates of 2.3 and 4.0 g per burrow, was used to determine control levels for Oropsylla hirsuta fleas, a vector of bubonic plague, in black-tail prairie dog, Cynomys ludovicianus, burrows in northern Colorado during the summer of 1988.
(19) He remembers as a child when crop dusters repeatedly used herbicide to destroy his father’s crops near the town of Tibú – and how his father would replant them.
(20) Long tunics, thin long duster coats and dresses over trousers are all the rage in bargain high-street shops such as New Look and Monki.
Luster
Definition:
(n.) One who lusts.
(n.) Alt. of Lustre
(v. t.) Alt. of Lustre
Example Sentences:
(1) Many ceramists advocate polishing, rather than glazing, to control the surface luster of metal ceramic restorations.
(2) Tytin had the highest luster with Lojic and Futura having a generally dark surface after 3 years clinical service.
(3) The results showed that the high speed finishing technique by twelve and thirty fluted carbide burs and final polishing with Command Ultrafine Luster Paste produces the smoothest and flatest surface of HERCULITE XR.
(4) Their expulsions, upholding the actions of IOC leadership in late January, marked a watershed in the worst scandal in Olympic history and, officials hoped, the start of a reform process to regain the luster of the five rings.
(5) SS patients also complain of dryness of their hair and note a decrease in luster, and severe dryness of the skin is frequently accompanied by pruritus.
(6) All amalgam samples exhibit a gradual loss of the surface luster with blackish discoloration and pitting after a long exposure period to the medium.
(7) 61, 41-53] that 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) produces toxic responses through persistent occupancy of nuclear thyroxine (T4) receptors, and that maintenance of receptor occupancy by supraphysiologic concentrations of thyroid hormones mimics TCDD toxicity [L. H. Hong, J. D. McKinney, and M. I. Luster (1987).
(8) The endoscopic findings showed changes in the bronchial wall consisting of reddening, pallor, absence of mucosal luster, edema, engorgement of blood vessels, irregular mucosal surface, and elevated mucosa.
(9) After a year it was concluded that composites on which the resin coating is intact maintain their color match, luster, and smoothness significantly better than uncoated composite restorations.
(10) In the CNS of the giant barnacle (Balanus nubilus) a single pair of large neuronal somata (cross-commissural, or CC, cells), located near the entry of the median ocellar nerve, occasionally displays a prominent whitish luster.
(11) Lesions ranged from loss of surface luster to erosions and deep ulcers with eburnation of the subchondral bone and secondary proliferative synovitis.
(12) The corneas have remained clear and lusterous without tears in Descemet's membrane.
(13) The data suggest that limited mobility, changes in color, poor luster, and relative opacity of the tympanic membrane occur in healthy neonates and may reflect physiologic changes unique to the newborn period.
(14) However, the alloy with Pd showed a significant superiority in surface luster over this time period.
(15) Future research should be directed to developing solution cleansers which can maintain plaque-free dentures with a daily soaking period of 15 to 30 minutes and not affect the color and surface luster of the denture acrylic resin.
(16) The luster of the term has dimmed with overuse, but it is a much more accurate description of not just what ending poverty will give us, but how we might accomplish it.
(17) All 20 nails are uniformly affected with excessive longitudinal striations and loss of nail luster.
(18) Results showed that composites glazed with resin coating finishes at placement maintained their luster, color match, and surface smoothness significantly better after one year than composites that were not coated.
(19) The overspray aerosol from six paints consisted of organic paint binders with varying amounts of inorganic species as pigments or luster enhancers.
(20) Within a few minutes corneal changes occurred that were characterized by viscous mucus, loss of corneal luster and dryness.