Dover's Powder

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• Powder

  ·vt To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. II. Powder ·vi To use powder on the hair or skin; as, ...

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• powder

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• Atlas powder

  ·add. ·- A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and ma...

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• Goa powder

  ·- A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (A...

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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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• Powder-posted

  ·adj Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. ·see Dry rot, under <<Dry>>. ...

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• Smokeless powder

  ·add. ·- A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke. ...

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• Vulcan powder

  ·add. ·- A dynamite composed of nitroglycerin (30 parts), sodium nitrate (52.5), charcoal (10.5), an...

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• powder monkey

  A boy on board a ship of war, whose business is to fetch powder from the magazine. ...

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• corned powder

  Powder granulated from the mill-cakes and sifted. ...

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• corryne powder

  Corn-powder, a fine kind of gunpowder. ...

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• cylinder powder

  That made upon the improved method of charring the wood to be used as charcoal in iron cylinders. Al...

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• filling powder

  Taking gunpowder from the casks to fill cartridges, when lights and fires should be extinguished. ...

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• glazed powder

  Gunpowder of which the grains, by friction against one another in a barrel worked for the purpose, h...

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• grained powder

  That corned or reduced into grains from the cakes, and distinguished from mealed powder, as employed...

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• morsing powder

  An old term for priming powder. ...

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• pellet-powder

  Has its grains much larger and smoother, and is intended to act more gradually than service gunpowde...

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• pit-powder

  That made with charcoal which has been burned in pits, not in cylinders. ...

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• powder, to

  To salt meat slightly; as Falstaff says, "If thou embowel me to-day, I'll give you leave to powder m...

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• powder-bags

  Leathern bags containing from 20 to 40 lbs. of powder; substituted for petards at the instance of Lo...

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• powder-hoy

  An ordnance vessel expressly fitted to convey powder from the land magazine to a ship; it invariably...

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• powder-magazine

  The prepared space allotted for the powder on board ship. ...

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• powder-monkey

  Formerly the boy of the gun, who had charge of the cartridge; now powder-man. ...

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• powder-vessel

  A ship used as a floating magazine. ...

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• serpentine powder

  An old term for a peculiar granulated gunpowder. ...

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• Gonne Powder House

  Messuage in parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate, "the Gonne Powder House," 36 H. VIII. 1544 (L...

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• corns of powder

  The small grains that gunpowder consists of. The powder reduced for fire-works, quill-tubes, &c.; so...

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