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A cake of compressed substance, as: in gunpowder manufacture, the cake resulting from compressing the meal powder; in the treatment of coal tar, the pressed product at various stages of the process; or, in beet-sugar manufacture, the vegetable residue after the sugar juice has been expressed.

ap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other capable for igniting a charge of gunpowder.

The powder or other combustible used to communicate fire to a charge of gunpowder, as in a firearm.

e; to move, or cause to move; as, the wind or steam propels ships; balls are propelled by gunpowder.

certain by an experiment, or by a test or standard; to test; as, to prove the strength of gunpowder or of ordnance; to prove the contents of a vessel by a standard measure. Thou hast proved mine heart. Ps. xvii. 3.

Sudden in action; quick; hasty. [Obs.] "Strong as aconitum or rash gunpowder." Shak.

itrification (see Nitrification, 2). It is a strong oxidizer, is the chief constituent of gunpowder, and is also used as an antiseptic in curing meat, and in medicine as a diuretic, diaphoretic, and refrigerant. Chili salpeter (Chem.), sodium nitrate (distinguished from potassium nitrate, or true salpeter), a white cry…

A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.

low or near the water line through which a torpedo is fired, usually by a small charge of gunpowder. On torpedo vessels the tubes are on deck and usually in broadside, on larger vessels usually submerged in broadside and fitted with a movable shield which is pushed out from the vessel's side to protect the torpedo unti…

Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

A line of gunpowder laid to lead fire to a charge, mine, or the like.

-- White poppy (Bot.), the opium-yielding poppy. See Poppy. -- White powder, a kind of gunpowder formerly believed to exist, and to have the power of exploding without noise. [Obs.] A pistol charged with white powder. Beau. & Fl. -- White precipitate. (Old Chem.) See under Precipitate. -- White rabbit. (Zoöl.) (a)…