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verb

Powder v. t. (past & past part. powdered; pres. part. powdering)

To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.

To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair. "A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars."

To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. (Obs.)

Powder 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.

adjective

Powdered adj.

Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.

Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. (Obs.) "Powdered beef, pickled meats."

(Her.) Same as Seme.

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... from Dolly, asking him to go and see her in the square. Savile was feeling rather sore because Dolly and her French friends had gone to a fancy ball the night before, a kind of semi-juvenile party where all the children wore powdered hair. Dolly had offered to get him an invitation, but he scornfully refused, knowing she was going to dance the ...

— The Twelfth Hour • Ada Leverson

... psychic basis, and appears in a variety of forms which are really all reducible to the same principle. Thus we are told in De Secretis Mulierum that to ascertain if a girl is seduced she should be given to eat of powdered crocus flowers, and if she has been seduced she immediately urinates. We are here concerned with auto-suggestion, and it may well be believed that with nervous and credulous girls this test ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... Your dear hair powdered in strange guise, Your dear face touched with colours pale: And gazing through the mask and veil The mirth ...

— The Wild Knight and Other Poems • Gilbert Chesterton

... rock of some kind," Dr. Miller answered, his eye at the instrument. "But why anyone should use powdered rock and then hide the bags certainly escapes me. I can't imagine what the powder is for. It isn't a powdered limestone, which might be used on the fields. The crystal structure is ...

— The Blue Ghost Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... one of the earliest materials practically used. The paper is cut out of proper shape, and is carbonized in a close vessel, while embedded in powdered charcoal or some other form of carbon to absolutely cut off access of air. It is then placed in the lamp chamber and flashed or subjected to ...

— The Standard Electrical Dictionary - A Popular Dictionary of Words and Terms Used in the Practice - of Electrical Engineering • T. O'Conor Slone

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