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A long-handled brush for dusting ceilings, etc., also for washing windows. [Cant]

Numerous; in large number. [Obs.] "The dust . . . raised by your populous troops." Shak. -- Pop"u*lous*ly, adv. -- Pop"u*lous*ness, n.

Dust; powder. [Obs.] Chaucer. Poudre marchant Etym: [see Merchant], a kind of flavoring powder used in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Charcoal dust, or some other colored powder for making patterns through perforated designs, -- used by embroiderers, lace makers, etc. Pounce box, a box for sprinkling pounce. -- Pounce paper, a transparent paper for tracing.

om a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.

stance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust. Grind their bones to powder small. Shak.

Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry. [U.S.]

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

Reward; recompense; as, the price of industry. 'T is the price of toil, The knave deserves it when he tills the soil. Pope. Price current, or Price list, a statement or list of the prevailing prices of merchandise, stocks, specie, bills of exchange, etc., published statedly or occasionally.

with foresight; -- opposed to retrospective. The French king of Sweden are circumspect, industrious, and prospective, too, in this affair. Sir J. Child.

rovoke the Highest To make death in us live. Milton. Can honor's voice provoke the silent dust Gray. To the poet the meaning is what he pleases to make it, what it provokes in his own soul. J. Burroughs.

Frosty; covered with fine scales, hairs, dust, bloom, or the like, so as to give the appearance of frost.

kind of light pastry. (c) A utensil of the toilet for dusting the skin or hair with powder.

of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.

To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverize. [R.]

The action of reducing to dust or powder.

To reduce of fine powder or dust, as by beating, grinding, or the like; as, friable substances may be pulverized by grinding or beating, but to pulverize malleable bodies other methods must be pursued.

Consisting of dust or powder; like powder.

The state of being pulverulent; abundance of dust or powder; dustiness.

Consisting of, or reducible to, fine powder; covered with dust or powder; powdery; dusty.