POWDERY

a.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
a.

Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.

2.
a.

Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.

3.
a.

Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.


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