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inder for the introduction of compressed air, used in the agitation and settling of pulp (pulverized ore and water) during treatment by the cyanide process; -- so named because, though originally devised in New Zealand, it was first practically introduced in Pachuca, Mexico.

To pound, pulverize, bray, or mix with a pestle, or as with a pestle; to use a pestle.

The pulverized shells of oysters used in making walks. [Eng.] Simmonds.

To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.

A pounded or pulverized substance. [R.] "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." J. S. Blackie.

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

The process of working clay, loam, pulverized ore, etc., with water, to render it compact, or impervious to liquids; also, the process of rendering anything impervious to liquids by means of puddled material.

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

Admitting of being pulverized; pulverable. Barton.

A root. "A race or two of ginger." Shak. Race ginger, ginger in the root, or not pulverized.

Bread or cake which has been made brown and crisp, and afterwards grated, or pulverized in a mortar.

llow resin obtained from a Barbary tree (Callitris quadrivalvis or Thuya articulata), and pulverized for pounce; -- probably so called from a resemblance to the mineral.

rom charcoal, which was brought by land. Sea-coal facing (Founding), facing consisting of pulverized bituminous coal.

A vessel, as a tub, in which something, as pulverized ore suspended in a liquid, is allowed to settle.

A utensil for separating the finer and coarser parts of a pulverized or granulated substance from each other. It consist of a vessel, usually shallow, with the bottom perforated, or made of hair, wire, or the like, woven in meshes. "In a sieve thrown and sifted." Chaucer.

. See under Dormant. -- Sleeping table (Mining), a stationary inclined platform on which pulverized ore is washed; a kind of buddle.

The pulverized matter from a quartz mill, or the lighter soil of hydraulic mines. [Local, U. S.]

Pulverized tobacco, etc., prepared to be taken into the nose; also, the amount taken at once.

he specific gravities of minerals, and in separating them when mechanically mixed as in a pulverized rock. -- Nessler's solution. See Nesslerize. -- Solution of continuity, the separation of connection, or of connected substances or parts; -- applied, in surgery, to a facture, laceration, or the like. "As in the natu…

To crush; to pulverize; specifically (Metal.), to crush by the blow of a heavy stamp, as ore in a mill. I took your sin, the calf which ye had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, and ground it very small. Deut. ix. 21.