Definition of "water-dust" [water-dust]

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

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "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"
• "The liquid particles thus produced form a kind of _water-dust_ of exceeding fineness, which floats in the air, and is called a _cloud_."
• "Rain is coarse water-dust formed by the aggregation of smaller globules, and varying in fineness from the"