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ng, 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.]

Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.

A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.

A horn in which gunpowder is carried.

a. & n. from Powder, v. t. Powdering tub. (a) A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted. (b) A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. [Obs.] Shak.

A mill in which gunpowder is made.

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

A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.

To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States) with sulphate of potash, and in France (as in Dr. Dover's original prescription) with nitrate and sulphate of potash and licorice. It is an anodyne diaphoretic.

A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.

Hence, Nov. 5 is known in England as Guy Fawkes Day. -- Gunpowder tea, a species of fine green tea, each leaf of which is rolled into a small ball or pellet.

Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.

An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge. Blackstone.

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

A dynamite composed of nitroglycerin (30 parts), sodium nitrate (52.5), charcoal (10.5), and sulphur (7), used in mining and blasting.

A material used for grinding, as emery, sand, powdered glass, etc.

A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents two parts of the original substance. Abstract of title (Law), an epitome of the evidences of ownership.

An apparatus for studying the combustion of powder in guns, etc.