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Eprouvette :: Eprouvette (n.) An apparatus for testing or proving the strength of gunpowder.

Aigremore :: Aigremore (n.) Charcoal prepared for making powder.

Guy :: Guy (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot..

Petuntze :: Petuntze (n.) Powdered fledspar, kaolin, or quartz, used in the manufacture of porcelain..

Species :: Species (n.) An officinal mixture or compound powder of any kind; esp., one used for making an aromatic tea or tisane; a tea mixture..

Powdery :: Powdery (a.) Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums..

Jalap :: "Jalap (n.) The tubers of the Mexican plant Ipomoea purga (or Exogonium purga), a climber much like the morning-glory. The abstract, extract, and powder, prepared from the tubers, are well known purgative medicines. Other species of Ipomoea yield several inferior kinds of jalap, as the I. Orizabensis, and I. tuberosa..

Poudre :: Poudre (n.) Dust; powder.

Greillade :: Greillade (n.) Iron ore in coarse powder, prepared for reduction by the Catalan process..

Zaffer :: Zaffer (n.) A pigment obtained, usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz, as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide, or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc..

Ultramarine :: Ultramarine (n.) A blue pigment formerly obtained by powdering lapis lazuli, but now produced in large quantities by fusing together silica, alumina, soda, and sulphur, thus forming a glass, colored blue by the sodium polysulphides made in the fusion. Also used adjectively..

Pounce :: Pounce (n.) A fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, -- formerly used to prevent ink from spreading on manuscript..

Explode :: Explode (v. i.) To become suddenly expanded into a great volume of gas or vapor; to burst violently into flame; as gunpowder explodes.

Mustard :: Mustard (n.) A powder or a paste made from the seeds of black or white mustard, used as a condiment and a rubefacient. Taken internally it is stimulant and diuretic, and in large doses is emetic..

Foul :: Foul (v. i.) To become clogged with burnt powder in the process of firing, as a gun..

Pseudobacteria :: Pseudobacteria (n. pl.) Microscopic organic particles, molecular granules, powdered inorganic substances, etc., which in form, size, and grouping resemble bacteria..

Morsing Horn :: Morsing horn () A horn or flask for holding powder, as for priming..

Conserve :: Conserve (n.) A medicinal confection made of freshly gathered vegetable substances mixed with finely powdered refined sugar. See Confection.

Lalo :: Lalo (n.) The powdered leaves of the baobab tree, used by the Africans to mix in their soup, as the southern negroes use powdered sassafras. Cf. Couscous..

Mildew :: Mildew (n.) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances..

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