Crossword clues for powdery
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Powdery \Pow"der*y\, a.
Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
Resembling powder; consisting of powder. ``The powdery snow.''
--Wordsworth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., from powder (n.) + -y (2).
Wiktionary
a. Of or pertaining to powder.
WordNet
adj. consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" [syn: powdered, pulverized, pulverised, small-grained, fine-grained]
as if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a powdery blue"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "powdery".
Maybe platinum or something else in that transitional group of metals that can also disaggregate into m-state powdery form.
There were three basements, one under another, until at last they stood at the bottom of the last escalator, on a bare concrete floor, swinging the portable floodlight over stacks of boxes and barrels and drums, and heaps of powdery dust.
If it were to become a dry or powdery substance, in form a mineral, could it be used to fructify the land as the urine of man is said to do and in its sublime state generate a thousandfold?
Stopping at the brazier, she raised the brass lid and thrust a mitted hand into the black, powdery soot.
Left, reet, left, reet, powdery snow crunching underfoot, Ginsburg out of step once more and Hornstein unable to beat his drum right because of the ten on each Mr.
She tasted a hint of brandy, while the smell of vetiver, green and powdery, filled her senses.
Brittany stares at her for a moment, and then the youngest of the ultra-rads charges at her, whooping and flailing his arms, and she squeals and runs from him with a knock-kneed gait, floundering up the powdery white slope of a dune with the boy scampering alongside.
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Count von Rumford only 105 years before, though that powdery and periwigged age now seemed a distant eon compared with the roll-your-sleeves-up robustness of the late Victorians.
It contained lead tubes inset with copper disks of varying thickness, a glass jar full of oily-looking sulfuric acid, and another jar that held a powdery, yellowish substance, presumably picric acid.
The tartrates and citrates had been released in gas when the water was mixed with the powdery remnant, but by adding those chemicals he had selected to the few clinging particles Van had recreated the crystals in their original form.
She drew a pipe from her pocket and handed it to Trale, who filled it with the powdery scraps from the pan.
Doc capering nimbly through the powdery snow, packing handfuls of it into wintery grenades and hurling them at Dean from behind trees.
She dipped into the little bag of dustlike granules she had found in his laboratory, and softly blew on her fingertips, sending the dust to settle over him in a powdery cloud.
The thick, steamy smell of seared vat-steaks and powdery soft slow-baked hydroponic potatoes washed over them as they entered.