powder dust
61powder — noun 1》 fine, dry particles produced by the grinding, crushing, or disintegration of a solid substance. 2》 a cosmetic in this form applied to a person s face. 3》 dated a medicine in this form. 4》 loose, dry newly fallen snow. 5》 gunpowder. verb… …
62powder — I. verb (powdered; powdering) Date: 13th century transitive verb 1. to sprinkle or cover with or as if with powder 2. to reduce or convert to powder 3. to hit very hard intransitive verb 1. to become powder 2. to apply cosme …
63dúst — n ( es/ ) dust, dried earth reduced to powder; other dry material reduced to powder; applied to the mortal frame of man …
64powder*/ — [ˈpaʊdə] noun [C/U] I a soft dry substance that looks like dust or sand chilli powder[/ex] powdery adj II verb [T] powder [ˈpaʊdə] to put powder on your face or body …
65dust — Synonyms and related words: acres, air, air pollution, alluvion, alluvium, altercation, arable land, ashes, attritus, bamboozle, barrel, beat, beeline, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, besprinkle, bickering, biscuit, bleach, body, bone, bones,… …
66dust off — (in BRIT, also use dust down) 1) PHRASAL VERB If you say that someone dusts something off or dusts it down, you mean they are using an old idea or method, rather than trying something new. [V P n (not pron)] Critics were busy dusting down the… …
67dust — n 1. powdery dirt, sawdust, filings; soot, smut. 2. earth, ground, land, soil, dirt; turf, sward, sod, clay. 3. rubbish, riffraff, rubble, trash; junk, worthless stuff, Sl. dreck; remains, leavings, leftovers, scraps; filth, dirt, offscourings;… …
68powder — (smokeless or black powder) A finely ground or comminuted mass of free particles formed from a solid substance in the dry state; dust. An explosive dry powder, as gunpowder …
69powder post — Dry Dry (dr[imac]), a. [Compar. {Drier}; superl. {Driest}.] [OE. dru[yogh]e, druye, drie, AS. dryge; akin to LG. dr[ o]ge, D. droog, OHG. trucchan, G. trocken, Icel. draugr a dry log. Cf. {Drought}, {Drouth}, 3d {Drug}.] 1. Free from moisture;… …
70powder — [13] The ultimate ancestor of powder is Latin pulvis ‘dust’ (source also of English pulverize [16]). This was related to Latin pollen ‘fine flour’ (source of English pollen), Latin puls ‘gruel’ (source of English poultice and pulse ‘legume’), and …
