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powder
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Word definitions for powder in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Powder \Pow"der\, v. i. To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily. To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "to put powder on;" late 14c., "to make into powder," from Old French poudrer "to pound, crush to powder; strew, scatter," from poudre (see powder (n.)). Related: Powdered ; powdering .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A powder is a dry, bulk solid composed of a large number of very fine particles that may flow freely when shaken or tilted. Powders are a special sub-class of granular materials , although the terms powder and granular are sometimes used to distinguish ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. 2 A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to ...
Usage examples of powder.
New Orleans, simply clothed in homespun cotton striped red and blue, abysmally poor and surrounded by swarms of children who all seemed to bear names like Nono and Vev6 and Bibi, cheerfully selling powdered file and alligator hides and going away again without bothering, like the Americans did, to sample the delights of the big city.
The braziers began giving off a thick, resinous, overly sweet smoke with something astringent to it but I had no way of knowing if it was, in fact, the perfume the grimoire had specified for operations ruled by the planet Mercury: a mixture of mastic, frankincense, cinquefoil, achates, and the dried and powdered brains of a fox.
Cover with salted and acidulated water, add a bunch of parsley, a sliced onion, and a pinch of powdered sweet herbs.
Scale and clean two large kingfish, and boil in salted and acidulated water, with a bunch of parsley, a slice each of carrot and onion, and a pinch of powdered sweet herbs.
It is evenly and not too thickly covered with fine sand or lycopodium powder and then caused to vibrate acoustically by the repeated drawing of a violin-bow with some pressure across the edge of the plate until a steady note becomes audible.
THE SHADOW folded the actinium powder in a small piece of paper that he found in the wastebasket.
By that time, his actinium powder would be as traceless as it had been with Rune.
Griff Forteyn was an arresting devil with his shining dark eyes and ebony hair, which in defiance of alamodality, he never wore powdered.
When the spy master sprinkled alegar over an egg and held it in the light of a particular lamp, the powder rose like mist.
Then I reduced them into a fine powder, and ordered the Jewish confectioner to mix the powder in my presence with a paste made of amber, sugar, vanilla, angelica, alkermes and storax, and I waited until the comfits prepared with that mixture were ready.
Not the least curious part of this outcrop is the black thread of iron silicate which, broken in places, subtends it to the east: some specimens have geodes yielding brown powder, and venal cavities lined with botryoidal quartz of amethystine tinge.
Impoverished Argali could never match such an offer: shovels and awls forged from fine metals, stacks of dried firewood, golden bridle bells, dewhoney and molasses, dried rose-leeks, cobberwheat, tri-grains, and reedflour that poured through your fingers like powdered rubies.
The smoking flame started snaking back through the doors of the armoury into the passageway that led to the main powder magazine.
I learned that on the 5th of June a violent explosion was heard in the Chamber of Representatives at Paris, which was at first supposed to be a clap of thunder, but was soon ascertained to have been occasioned by a young Samson having fallen with a packet of detonating powder in his pocket.
Some assayers use a little powdered fluor-spar to assist the fusion of refractory slags.