Powder

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.

II. Powder ·vi To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.

III. Powder ·vi To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.

IV. Powder ·vt To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.

V. Powder ·noun An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, ·etc.; gunpowder. ·see Gunpowder.

VI. Powder ·noun The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.

VII. Powder ·vt To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to Comminute; to Pulverize; to Triturate.

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