POWDERn.
[L. pulvis.]
1. Any dry substance composed of minute particles, whether natural or artificial; more generally, a substance comminuted or triturated to fine particles. Thus dust is the powder of earth; flour is the powder of grain. But the word is particularly applied to substances reduced to fine particles for medicinal purposes.
2. A composition of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal, mixed and granulated; gun-powder.
3. Hair powder; pulverized starch.
POWDERv.t.
To reduce to fine particles; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate; to pound, grind or rub into fine particles.
1. To sprinkle with powder; as, to powder the hair.
2. To sprinkle with salt; to corn; as meat.
POWDERv.i.
To come violently. [Not in use.]