Has its grains much larger and smoother, and is intended to act more gradually than service gunpowder, but by the English it is at present considered rather weak.
(·vt) To form into small balls. II. Pellet ·noun A bullet; a ball for firearms. III. Pellet ·noun ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
An old word for shot or bullet. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
·vt To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. II. Powder ·vi To use powder on the hair or skin; as, ...
See gunpowder. ...
·add. ·- A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and ma...
·- A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in Englan...
·- A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (A...
·- Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; — called also fever powder...
·adj Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. ·see Dry rot, under <<Dry>>. ...
·add. ·- A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke. ...
·add. ·- A dynamite composed of nitroglycerin (30 parts), sodium nitrate (52.5), charcoal (10.5), an...
A boy on board a ship of war, whose business is to fetch powder from the magazine. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
Powder granulated from the mill-cakes and sifted. ...
Corn-powder, a fine kind of gunpowder. ...
That made upon the improved method of charring the wood to be used as charcoal in iron cylinders. Al...
Taking gunpowder from the casks to fill cartridges, when lights and fires should be extinguished. ...
Gunpowder of which the grains, by friction against one another in a barrel worked for the purpose, h...
That corned or reduced into grains from the cakes, and distinguished from mealed powder, as employed...
An old term for priming powder. ...
That made with charcoal which has been burned in pits, not in cylinders. ...
To salt meat slightly; as Falstaff says, "If thou embowel me to-day, I'll give you leave to powder m...
Leathern bags containing from 20 to 40 lbs. of powder; substituted for petards at the instance of Lo...
An ordnance vessel expressly fitted to convey powder from the land magazine to a ship; it invariably...
The prepared space allotted for the powder on board ship. ...
Formerly the boy of the gun, who had charge of the cartridge; now powder-man. ...
A ship used as a floating magazine. ...
An old term for a peculiar granulated gunpowder. ...
Messuage in parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate, "the Gonne Powder House," 36 H. VIII. 1544 (L...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
The small grains that gunpowder consists of. The powder reduced for fire-works, quill-tubes, &c.; so...