Meaning

The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust..

Definitions by Sense

1. The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
2. (cosmetics) A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
3. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
4. (informal) Ellipsis of powder snow; light, dry, fluffy snow.
5. Ellipsis of powder blue, a color.
6. (transitive) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
7. (transitive) To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.
8. (intransitive) To use powder on the hair or skin.

Example Sentences

Let me goe grin'd their Bones to powder ſmall, […]

Let them stop fretting about vegetables denied by the weather and eat chilli powder. Just explain to them that they really shouldn’t think about spiralising it, because that doesn’t work.

She was redolent of violet sachet powder, and had warm, soft, white hands, but she danced divinely, moving as smoothly as the tide coming in.

Tut, tut, good enough to toſſe: foode for Powder, foode for Powder: they'll fill a Pit, as well as better: tuſh man, mortall men, mortall men.

25 October 2016, Bettina Elias Siegel writing in New York Times, Should the Food Industry Sneak Vegetables Into Food? In desperation, they dried fruits and vegetables in an old food dehydrator they had, then used their coffee grinder to powder the produce...

to powder one's hair

23 March 2016, Seth Augenstein in Laboratory Equipment, FDA Proposes Ban on Powdered Surgical Gloves, Decades after Documenting Health Dangers Gloves were powdered for more than a century to allow doctors and surgeons to slip them on more easily.

A circling zone thou seest / Powdered with stars.

Word Forms

• powders
• powdre
• powdering
• powdered

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