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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.
a. & n. from Powder, v. t.
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.
Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.
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a.
Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
v. i.
To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
a.
Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
n.
The opening at the breech of a firearm, through which fire is communicated to the powder of the charge; touchhole.
a.
Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.
a.
See Powdery.
v. t.
To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
n.
Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
v. t.
To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Powder
n.
A poisonous alkaloid obtained from the root hellebore (Veratrum) and from sabadilla seeds as a white crystalline powder, having an acrid, burning taste. It is sometimes used externally, as in ointments, in the local treatment of neuralgia and rheumatism. Called also veratria, and veratrina.
a.
Resembling powder; consisting of powder.
n.
Gold powder for covering varnished surfaces.
n.
A glucoside extracted from the root of a South African plant of the genus Vernonia, as a deliquescent powder, and used as a mild heart tonic.
v. i.
To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
imp. & p. p.
of Powder
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