meaning of powder
1. To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
2. To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
3. To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
4. To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
5. To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
6. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
7. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc. ; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
8. any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a powder
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