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Powder
v. t.
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To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
Powder
v. t.
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To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
Powder
v. t.
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To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
Powder
v. i.
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To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
Powder
v. i.
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To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
Powdered
a.
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Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.
Powdered
a.
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Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned.
Powdered
a.
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Same as Seme.
Powderflask
n.
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A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.
Powderhorn
n.
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A horn in which gunpowder is carried.
Powdering
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a. & n. from Powder, v. t.
Powdermill
n.
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A mill in which gunpowder is made.
Powder-posted
a.
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Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
Powdery
a.
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Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
Powdery
a.
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Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
Powdery
a.
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Resembling powder; consisting of powder.
Powdike
n.
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A dike a marsh or fen.
Powdry
a.
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See Powdery.
Power
n.
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Same as Poor, the fish.
Power
n.
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Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
Power
n.
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Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
Power
n.
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Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
Power
n.
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The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
Power
n.
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The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
Power
n.
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A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
Power
n.
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A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.
Power
n.
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The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
Power
n.
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A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
Power
n.
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Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
Power
n.
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A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.