Word Meanings - POWDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

puldre, L. pulvis, pulveris: cf. pollen fine flour, mill dust, E. 1. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. Grind their bones to powder small. Shak.

Additional info about word: POWDER

puldre, L. pulvis, pulveris: cf. pollen fine flour, mill dust, E. 1. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. Grind their bones to powder small. Shak. 2. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder. Atlas powder, Baking powder, etc. See under Atlas, Baking, etc. -- Powder down , the peculiar dust, or exfoliation, of powder-down feathers. -- Powder-down feather , one of a peculiar kind of modified feathers which sometimes form patches on certain parts of some birds. They have a greasy texture and a scaly exfoliation. -- Powder-down patch , a tuft or patch of powder-down feathers. -- Powder hose, a tube of strong linen, about an inch in diameter, filled with powder and used in firing mines. Farrow. -- Powder hoy , a vessel specially fitted to carry powder for the supply of war ships. They are usually painted red and carry a red flag. -- Powder magazine, or Powder room. See Magazine, 2. -- Powder mine, a mine exploded by gunpowder. See Mine. -- Powder monkey , a boy formerly employed on war vessels to carry powder; a powder boy. -- Powder post. See Dry rot, under Dry. -- Powder puff. See Puff, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of POWDER)

• Intersperse
• Interlard
• powder
• scatter

Related words: (words related to POWDER)

• POWDERY
  1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
• POWDERED
  See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.
• INTERSPERSE
  1. To scatter or set here and there among other things; to insert at intervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope. 2. To diversify or adorn
• POWDER-POSTED
  Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
• SCATTERLING
  One who has no fixed habitation or residence; a vagabond. "Foreign scatterlings." Spenser.
• SCATTER-BRAIN
  A giddy or thoughtless person; one incapable of concentration or attention.
• SCATTERING
  Going or falling in various directions; not united or agregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes.
• POWDERHORN
  A horn in which gunpowder is carried.
• SCATTERGOOD
  One who wastes; a spendthrift.
• POWDERFLASK
  A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.
• POWDERMILL
  A mill in which gunpowder is made.
• SCATTER
  Etym: 1. To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order. And some are scattered all the floor about. Chaucer. Why should my muse enlarge on Libyan swains,
• SCATTER-BRAINED
  Giddy; thoughtless.
• POWDERING
  a. & n. from Powder, v. t. Powdering tub. A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted. A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. Shak.
• SCATTERED
  Irregular in position; having no regular order; as, scattered leaves. -- Scat"tered*ly, adv. -- Scat"tered*ness, n. (more info) 1. Dispersed; dissipated; sprinkled, or loosely spread.
• INTERLARD
  1. To place lard or bacon amongst; to mix, as fat meat with lean. Whose grain doth rise in flakes, with fatness interlarded. Drayton. 2. Hence: To insert between; to mix or mingle; especially, to introduce that which is foreign or irrelevant; as,
• POWDER
  puldre, L. pulvis, pulveris: cf. pollen fine flour, mill dust, E. 1. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. Grind their bones to powder small. Shak.
• SCATTERINGLY
  In a scattering manner; dispersedly.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• BEPOWDER
  To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.
• GOA POWDER
  A bitter powder found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.
• ATLAS POWDER
  A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.
• PIEPOUDRE; PIEPOWDER
  An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge. Blackstone.
• SMOKELESS POWDER
  A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
• JAMES'S POWDER
  Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.
• DOVER'S POWDER
  A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England 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