Crossword clues for powdered
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Powdered \Pow"dered\, a.
Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.
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Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. [Obs.]
Powdered beef, pickled meats.
--Harvey. (Her.) Same as Sem['e].
--Walpole.
Powder \Pow"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Powdered; p. pr. & vb. n. Powdering.] [F. poudrer.]
To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
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To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars.
--Milton. To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
1 which has been made into a powder 2 which has been covered with powder (typically referring to makeup) 3 (context obsolete English) Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. v
(en-past of: powder)
WordNet
adj. consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" [syn: powdery, pulverized, pulverised, small-grained, fine-grained]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "powdered".
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.
Griff Forteyn was an arresting devil with his shining dark eyes and ebony hair, which in defiance of alamodality, he never wore powdered.
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.
Some assayers use a little powdered fluor-spar to assist the fusion of refractory slags.
It took Mum a long time to get ready and while she powdered her face and arranged the elaborate ornamented folds of her head-gear and dug out her necklaces and bangles, her wrappers and white shoes, and plaited her hair hurriedly in the mirror, Dad was already asleep on his three-legged chair.
They had carried nosegays of flowers and drunk powdered emeralds and applied leeches to the buboes, but all of those were worse than useless, and Dr.
He dressed in blue silk breeches and waistcoat, buckled slippers, and an absurd curled and powdered wig that released clouds of white dust whenever he moved his decrepit head.
But the local folk put out bits of raw meat into which they had put a quantity of powdered bugloss herb, and that was what made the wolves and foxes blind and addled, to totter helplessly about in broad daylight.
Sucking powdered sugar from his fingers, the bureaucrat almost stumbled into a brawl.
For a long moment Cavilon glared with distaste at the powdered face gazing back at him, then resumed all the affectations that achieved the startling alteration in his looks.
Rubbed together with cerate, or lard, powdered Savin is used for maintaining the sores of blisters, and of issues, open when it is desired to keep up their derivative action.
In the kitchen there was a welcome pack of coffee, powdered creamer and sugar.