Makes up, in a way

Usage examples of powders.

The following is a very effectual remedy: take twenty grains of quinine, combined with one drachm of prussiate of iron, and divide it into ten powders, and administer a powder every three hours until the pain is completely arrested.

As with all soy protein powders, isolated protein powders from egg or milk can be stored at room temperature, always ensuring easy access to protein to fortify any meal.

These powders can be mixed into just about every type of food, and the technology exists to convert these powders into meat substitutes of all kinds.

Baking powders that contain no sodium aluminum sulphate, often found in double-acting baking powders.

Light bulky powders absorb more than heavy ones, because of the greater condensing surface.

A set of sieves to determine the relative proportion of powders of different degrees of fineness is sometimes useful.

The dust rustles through the streets of Khanbalik, thousands of li away, and powders the flowers in the gardens of Xan-du, farther yet, and scums the lake waters of Hang-zho, farther yet, and is cursed by the tidy housekeepers of every other Kithai city I ever was in.

But each of those powders has a different inherent density, or weight.

I travel with a supply of paper tubes, wicks, barrels of each of the constituent powders, and it is no great chore to mix the huo-yao and charge my various engines.

From the first brewing of the stinking compounds they were left with a store of dried crystalline powders that filled three large pots.

Over his shoulders he carried his bow and bark quiver of poisoned arrows, and round his waist a belt hung with an array of charms and buck horns filled with magical and medical potions, powders and unguents.

The use of such drying powders tends to favor the speedy formation of clots.

The poor man, though unmarried, worked from morning till night making up powders and ointments.

With a tremulous hand he shook one of the powders into the glass and gulped it down with the whisky.

Sage, behind his counter, served an elderly lady with dog powders designed, no doubt, for a dyspeptic pug which sat and groaned after the manner of his kind at her feet.