Word Meanings - POWDERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.

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• CORNLOFT
  A loft for corn; a granary.
• SALTATORY
  Leaping or dancing; having the power of, or used in, leaping or dancing. Saltatory evolution , a theory of evolution which holds that the transmutation of species is not always gradual, but that there may come sudden and marked variations. See
• CORNIC
  Pertaining to, derived from, or resembling, the dogwood (Cornus florida).
• POWDERY
  1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
• SALTFOOT
  A large saltcellar formerly placed near the center of the table. The superior guests were seated above the saltfoot.
• SALTPETROUS
  Pertaining to saltpeter, or partaking of its qualities; impregnated with saltpeter.
• SALTIGRADE
  Having feet or legs formed for leaping.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• CORNEA
  The transparent part of the coat of the eyeball which covers the iris and pupil and admits light to the interior. See Eye.
• SALTATORIA
  A division of Orthoptera including grasshoppers, locusts, and crickets.
• SPRINKLING
  1. The act of one who, or that which, sprinkles. Baptism may well enough be performed by sprinkling or effusion of water. Ayliffe. 2. A small quantity falling in distinct drops or particles; as, a sprinkling of rain or snow. 3. Hence, a moderate
• SALTARELLO
  A popular Italian dance in quick 3-4 or 6-8 time, running mostly in triplets, but with a hop step at the beginning of each measure. See Tarantella.
• POWDERED
  See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.
• CORNO INGLESE
  A reed instrument, related to the oboe, but deeper in pitch; the English horn.
• REDUCE
  To bring to the metallic state by separating from impurities; hence, in general, to remove oxygen from; to deoxidize; to combine with, or to subject to the action of, hydrogen; as, ferric iron is reduced to ferrous iron; or metals are reduced from
• CORNET-A-PISTON
  A brass wind instrument, like the trumpet, furnished with valves moved by small pistons or sliding rods; a cornopean; a cornet. (more info) piston. Etym:
• CORNUTE; CORNUTED
  1. Bearing horns; horned; horn-shaped. 2. Cuckolded. "My being cornuted." LEstrange.
• REDUCTIVE
  Tending to reduce; having the power or effect of reducing. -- n.
• SALTISH
  Somewhat salt. -- Salt"ish*ly, adv. -- Salt"ish*ness, n.
• SALTATORIAL
  1. Relating to leaping; saltatory; as, saltatorial exercises. Same as Saltatorious. Of or pertaining to the Saltatoria.
• BESCORN
  To treat with scorn. "Then was he bescorned." Chaucer.
• SEA CORN
  A yellow cylindrical mass of egg capsule of certain species of whelks , which resembles an ear of maize.
• MONGCORN
  See MANGCORN
• CLAVICORNES
  A group of beetles having club-shaped antennæ.
• MISALTER
  To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.
• LAMELLICORNIA
  A group of lamellicorn, plant-eating beetles; -- called also Lamellicornes.
• SEA UNICORN
  The narwhal.
• ACORN
  A cone-shaped piece of wood on the point of the spindle above the vane, on the mast-head. (more info) acorn, Ger. ecker, Icel. akarn, Dan. agern, Goth. akran fruit, akrs 1. The fruit of the oak, being an oval nut growing in a woody cup or cupule.
• ACORN CUP
  The involucre or cup in which the acorn is fixed.