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imp. & p. p. |
| Powder |
The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. |
n. |
| Powder |
An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder. |
n. |
| Powder |
To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate. |
v. t. |
| Powder |
To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair. |
v. t. |
| Powder |
To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. |
v. t. |
| Powder |
To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily. |
v. i. |
| Powder |
To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders. |
v. i. |
| Dover's Powder |
A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic. |
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| Goa powder |
A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained. |
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| James's powder |
Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder. |
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