noun. A substance consisting of ground, pulverized, or otherwise finely dispersed solid particles.

noun. Any of various preparations in the form of powder, as certain cosmetics and medicines.

noun. A dry explosive mixture, such as gunpowder.

noun. Light dry snow.

transitive verb. To turn into or produce as a powder.

transitive verb. To put powder on.

transitive verb. To strew or ornament with small objects or flecks.

idiom. (keep (one's) powder dry) To be ready for a challenge with little warning.

idiom. (take a powder) To make a quick departure; run away.

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

To sprinkle with powder, dust, ashes, etc.; specifically, to put powder upon: as, to powder the hair or the face.

To sprinkle with salt, spices, or other seasoning; hence, to corn; pickle.

To sprinkle as with powder; stud; ornament with a small pattern, continually repeated.

To whiten by some application of white material in the form of a powder: thus, lace which has grown yellow is powdered by being placed in a packet of white lead and beaten.

To scatter; place here and there as if sprinkled like powder: as, to powder violets on a silk ground.

To fall to dust; be reduced to powder.

To apply powder to the hair or face; use powder in the toilet.

To attack violently; make a great stir.

noun. Fine, minute, loose, uncompacted particles, such as result from pounding or grinding a solid substance; dust.

noun. A preparation or composition, in the form of dust or minute loose particles, applied in various ways, as in the toilet, etc.: as, hair-powder; face-powder.

noun. A composition of saltpeter, sulphur, and charcoal, mixed and granulated: more particularly designated gunpowder (which see).

noun. Seasoning, either of salt or of spices.

noun. A medical remedy, or a dose of some medical remedy, in the form of powder, or minute loose or uncompacted particles: as, he has to take three powders every hour.

intransitive verb. To be reduced to powder; to become like powder.

intransitive verb. To use powder on the hair or skin.

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

noun. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.

noun. etc. See under Atlas, Baking, etc.

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noun. the peculiar dust, or exfoliation, of powder-down feathers.

noun. one of a peculiar kind of modified feathers which sometimes form patches on certain parts of some birds. They have a greasy texture and a scaly exfoliation.

noun. a tuft or patch of powder-down feathers.

noun. a tube of strong linen, about an inch in diameter, filled with powder and used in firing mines.

noun. a vessel specially fitted to carry powder for the supply of war ships. They are usually painted red and carry a red flag.

noun. See Magazine, 2.

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noun. a mine exploded by gunpowder. See Mine.

noun. a boy formerly employed on war vessels to carry powder; a powder boy.

noun. See Dry rot, under Dry.

noun. See Puff, n.

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

transitive verb. To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle.

transitive verb. To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.

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

noun. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.

noun. Light, dry, fluffy snow.

verb. To reduce to fine particles.

verb. To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder.

verb. To be reduced to powder; to become like powder.

verb. To use powder on the hair or skin.

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