Definition of "star-dust" []

• Same as cosmic dust (which see, under cosmic). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "When Tamerlane swept with fire and sword over Eastern Asia, states were disrupted, cities overthrown, and tribes scattered like star-dust."
• "Courbertin read slowly, '_states were disrupted, cities overthrown, and tribes scattered like -- like star-dust."
• "He knew full well, from his Spencer, that man can never attain ultimate knowledge of anything, and that the mystery of beauty was no less than that of life - nay, more that the fibres of beauty and life were intertwisted, and that he himself was but a bit of the same nonunderstandable fabric, twisted of sunshine and star-dust and wonder."