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- English Word Powder-posted Definition Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
- English Word Powdered Definition of Powder
- English Word Powdered Definition Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.
- English Word Powdered Definition Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned.
- English Word Powdered Definition Same as Seme.
- English Word Powderflask Definition A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.
- English Word Powderhorn Definition A horn in which gunpowder is carried.
- English Word Powdering Definition of Powder
- English Word Powdering Definition a. & n. from Powder, v. t.
- English Word Powdermill Definition A mill in which gunpowder is made.
- English Word Powdery Definition Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
- English Word Powdery Definition Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
- English Word Powdery Definition Resembling powder; consisting of powder.
- English Word Powdike Definition A dike a marsh or fen.
- English Word Powdry Definition See Powdery.
- English Word Powen Definition A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.
- English Word Power Definition Same as Poor, the fish.
- English Word Power Definition 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.
- English Word Power Definition 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.
- English Word Power Definition Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.