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Columbiad :: Columbiad (n.) A form of seacoast cannon; a long, chambered gun designed for throwing shot or shells with heavy charges of powder, at high angles of elevation..

Dover's Powder :: Dover's Powder () 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..

Powdery :: Powdery (a.) Resembling powder; consisting of powder.

Smift :: Smift (n.) A match for firing a charge of powder, as in blasting; a fuse..

Veratrine :: Veratrine (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..

Explode :: Explode (v. t.) To cause to explode or burst noisily; to detonate; as, to explode powder by touching it with fire..

Contrition :: Contrition (n.) The act of grinding or ribbing to powder; attrition; friction; rubbing.

Stump :: Stump (n.) A short, thick roll of leather or paper, cut to a point, or any similar implement, used to rub down the lines of a crayon or pencil drawing, in shading it, or for shading drawings by producing tints and gradations from crayon, etc., in powder..

Efflorescence :: Efflorescence (n.) The formation of the whitish powder or crust on the surface of efflorescing bodies, as salts, etc..

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

Flask :: Flask (n.) A narrow-necked vessel of metal or glass, used for various purposes; as of sheet metal, to carry gunpowder in; or of wrought iron, to contain quicksilver; or of glass, to heat water in, etc..

Reed :: Reed (n.) A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting.

Braize :: Braize (n.) Charcoal powder; breeze.

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

Powdery :: Powdery (a.) Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar..

Streak :: Streak (n.) The fine powder or mark yielded by a mineral when scratched or rubbed against a harder surface, the color of which is sometimes a distinguishing character..

Powdered :: Powdered (a.) Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder..

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

Flour :: Flour (n.) The finely ground meal of wheat, or of any other grain; especially, the finer part of meal separated by bolting; hence, the fine and soft powder of any substance; as, flour of emery; flour of mustard..

Pulverization :: Pulverization (n.) The action of reducing to dust or powder.

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