Attritus

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Matter reduced to powder by attrition. Carlyle.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Matter pulverized by attrition.
  • Word Usage
    "Elsewhere in Ovid, the only form found of _atterere_ is _attritus_: this circumstance perhaps contributed to the corruption of the present passage."