Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter P - Page 103
Pounce (v. i.) To fall suddenly and seize with the claws; -- with on or upon; as, a hawk pounces upon a chicken. Also used figuratively.
Derision is never so agonizing as when it pounces on the wanderings of misguided sensibility. -- Jeffrey.
Pounce (n.) The act of pouncing.
Pounce (v.) Move down on as if in an attack; "The raptor swooped down on its prey"; "The teacher swooped down upon the new students" [syn: pounce, swoop].
Pounced (a.) Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle. -- Thomson.
Pounced (a.) Ornamented with perforations or dots. [Obs.] "Gilt bowls pounced and pierced." -- Holinshed.
Pouncet box () A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes. -- Shak.
Pouncing (n.) The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce.
Pouncing (n.) Decorative perforation of cloth. [Obs.]
Pounded (imp. & p. p.) of Pound.
Pounding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pound.
Pound (v. t.) To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat.
With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. -- Dryden.
Pound (v. t.) To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as, to pound spice or salt.
Pound (v. i.) To strike heavy blows; to beat.
Pound (v. i.) (Mach.) To make a jarring noise, as in running; as, the engine pounds.
Pound (n.) An inclosure, maintained by public authority, in which cattle or other animals are confined when taken in trespassing, or when going at large in violation of law; a pinfold. -- Shak.
Pound (n.) A level stretch in a canal between locks.
Pound (n.) (Fishing) A kind of net, having a large inclosure with a narrow entrance into which fish are directed by wings spreading outward.
Pound covert, A pound that is close or covered over, as a shed.
Pound overt, A pound that is open overhead.
Pound (v. t.) To confine in, or as in, a pound; to impound. -- Milton.
Pounds (n. pl. ) of Pound.
Pound (n. pl. ) of Pound.
Pounds (n. pl. ) of Pound.
Pound (n.) A certain specified weight; especially, a legal standard consisting of an established number of ounces.
Note: The pound in general use in the United States and in England is the pound avoirdupois, which is divided into sixteen ounces, and contains 7,000 grains (0.453 kilogram). The pound troy is divided into twelve ounces, and contains 5,760 grains. 144 pounds avoirdupois are equal to 175 pounds troy weight. See Avoirdupois, and Troy.
Pound (n.) A British denomination of money of account, equivalent to twenty shillings sterling, and equal in value to about $4.86 in 1900 and $1.50 in 2002. The modern pound coin was introduced in 1983. Formerly there was a gold sovereign of the same value.
Note: The pound sterling was in Saxon times, about a. d. 671, a pound troy of silver, and a shilling was its twentieth part; consequently the latter was three times as large as it is at present. -- Peacham.
Pound (n.) 16 ounces avoirdupois; "he got a hernia when he tried to lift 100 pounds" [syn: pound, lb].
Pound (n.) The basic unit of money in Great Britain and Northern Ireland; equal to 100 pence [syn: British pound, pound, British pound sterling, pound sterling, quid].
Pound (n.) A unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces troy.
Pound (n.) The basic unit of money in Syria; equal to 100 piasters [syn: Syrian pound, pound].
Pound (n.) The basic unit of money in the Sudan; equal to 100 piasters [syn: Sudanese pound, pound].
Pound (n.) The basic unit of money in Lebanon; equal to 100 piasters [syn: Lebanese pound, pound]
Pound (n.) Formerly the basic unit of money in Ireland; equal to 100 pence [syn: Irish pound, Irish punt, punt, pound].
Pound (n.) The basic unit of money in Egypt; equal to 100 piasters [syn: Egyptian pound, pound].
Pound (n.) The basic unit of money in Cyprus; equal to 100 cents [syn: Cypriot pound, pound].
Pound (n.) A nontechnical unit of force equal to the mass of 1 pound with an acceleration of free fall equal to 32 feet/ sec/ sec [syn: pound, lbf.].
Pound (n.) United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972) [syn: Pound, Ezra Pound, Ezra Loomis Pound].
Pound (n.) A symbol for a unit of currency (especially for the pound sterling in Great Britain) [syn: pound, pound sign].
Pound (n.) A public enclosure for stray or unlicensed dogs; "unlicensed dogs will be taken to the pound" [syn: pound, dog pound].
Pound (n.) The act of pounding (delivering repeated heavy blows); "the sudden hammer of fists caught him off guard"; "the pounding of feet on the hallway" [syn: hammer, pound, hammering, pounding].
Pound (v.) Hit hard with the hand, fist, or some heavy instrument; "the salesman pounded the door knocker"; "a bible-thumping Southern Baptist" [syn: thump, pound, poke].
Pound (v.) Strike or drive against with a heavy impact; "ram the gate with a sledgehammer"; "pound on the door" [syn: ram, ram down, pound].
Pound (v.) Move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room" [syn: lumber, pound].
Pound (v.) Move rhythmically; "Her heart was beating fast" [syn: beat, pound, thump].
Pound (v.) Partition off into compartments; "The locks pound the water of the canal" [syn: pound, pound off].
Pound (v.) Shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits; "The prisoners are safely pounded" [syn: pound, pound up].
Pound (v.) Place or shut up in a pound; "pound the cows so they don't stray" [syn: impound, pound].
Pound (v.) Break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle; "pound the roots with a heavy flat stone".
Pound, () A British pound sign or Americal hash character. (2013-08-15)
Pound, () A weight. Heb. maneh, equal to 100 shekels (1 Kings 10:17; Ezra 2:69; Neh. 7:71, 72). Gr. litra, equal to about 12 oz. avoirdupois (John 12:3; 19:39).
Pound, () A sum of money; the Gr. mna or mina (Luke 19:13, 16, 18, 20, 24, 25). It was equal to 100 drachmas, and was of the value of about $3, 6s. 8d. of our money. (See Money.)
Pound, () Weight. There are two kinds of weights, namely, the troy, and the avoirdupois. The pound avoirdupois is greater than the troy pound, in the proportion of seven thousand to five thousand seven hundred and sixty. The troy pound contains twelve ounces, that of avoirdupois sixteen ounces.
Pound, () Eng. law. A place enclosed to keep strayed animals in. 5 Pick. 514; 4 Pick. 258; 9 Pick. 14.
Pound, () Money. The sum of twenty shillings. Previous to the establishment of the federal currency, the different states made use of the pound in computing money; it was of different value in the several states.
Pound, () Pound sterling, is a denomination of money of Great Britain. It is of the value of a sovereign. (q.v.) In calculating the rates of duties, the pound sterling shall be considered and taken as of the value of four dollars and eighty cents. Apt of March 3, 1833.
Pound, () The pound sterling of Ireland is to be computed, in calculating said duties, at four dollars and ten cents. Id.
Pound, () The pound of the British provinces Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland, and Canada, is to be so computed at four dollars. Act of May, 22, 1846.
Pound, WI -- U.S. village in Wisconsin
Population (2000): 355
Housing Units (2000): 174
Land area (2000): 0.815422 sq. miles (2.111934 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.815422 sq. miles (2.111934 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64750
Located within: Wisconsin (WI), FIPS 55
Location: 45.093795 N, 88.032899 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 54161
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Pound, WI
Pound
Pound, VA -- U.S. town in Virginia
Population (2000): 1089
Housing Units (2000): 516
Land area (2000): 2.607964 sq. miles (6.754595 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.607964 sq. miles (6.754595 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64272
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.123820 N, 82.607859 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24279
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Pound, VA
Pound
Poundage (n.) A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.
Poundage (n.) A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more. [Eng.] -- Blackstone.
Poundage (n.) (Law) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound. -- Burrill. Bouvier.
Poundage (v. t.) To collect, as poundage; to assess, or rate, by poundage. [R.]
Poundage (n.) Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound.
Poundage (n.) A charge paid for the release of impounded cattle.
Poundage (n.) A charge based on weight measured in pounds.
Poundage (n.) A fee charged for the recovery of impounded animals.
Poundage (n.) Weight expressed in pounds.
Poundage (n.) Placing private property in the custody of an officer of the law [syn: impoundment, impounding, internment, poundage].
Poundage, () Practice. The amount allowed to the sheriff, or other officer, for commissions on, the money made by virtue of an execution. This allowance varies in different states, and to different officers.
Poundal (n.) (Physics & Mech.) A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of half an ounce, and is 13,825 dynes.
Poundal (n.) A unit of force equal to the force that imparts an acceleration of 1 foot/ sec/ sec to a mass of 1 pound; equal to 0.1382 newtons [syn: poundal, pdl].
Pound-breach (n.) The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. -- Blackstone.
Poundcake (n.) A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
Pounder (n.) One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill.
Pounder (n.) An instrument used for pounding; a pestle.
Pounder (n.) A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying a twelve-pound ball is called a twelve pounder.
Note: Before the English reform act of 1867, one who was an elector by virtue of paying ten pounds rent was called a ten pounder.
Pounder (n.) (Used only in combination) something weighing a given number of pounds; "the fisherman caught a 10-pounder"; "their linemen are all 300-pounders".
Pounder (n.) A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone [syn: pestle, muller, pounder].
Pounding (n.) The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating.
Pounding (n.) A pounded or pulverized substance. [R.] "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." -- J. S. Blackie.
Poundkeeper (n.) The keeper of a pound.
Poundrate (n.) A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.
Poup (v. i.) See Powp. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Poupart's ligament (Anat.) A ligament, of fascia, extending, in most mammals, from the ventral side of the ilium to near the symphysis of the pubic bones.
Poupeton (n.) A puppet, or little baby. [Obs.] -- Palsgrave.
Pour (a.) Poor. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Pour (v. i.) To pore. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Poured (imp. & p. p.) of Pour
Pouring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pour
Pour (v. t.) To cause to flow in a stream, as a liquid or anything flowing like a liquid, either out of a vessel or into it; as, to pour water from a pail; to pour wine into a decanter; to pour oil upon the waters; to pour out sand or dust.
Pour (v. t.) To send forth as in a stream or a flood; to emit; to let escape freely or wholly.
I . . . have poured out my soul before the Lord. -- 1 Sam. i. 15.
Now will I shortly pour out my fury upon thee. -- Ezek. vii. 8.
London doth pour out her citizens ! -- Shak.
Wherefore did Nature pour her bounties forth With such a full and unwithdrawing hand ? -- Milton.
Pour (v. t.) To send forth from, as in a stream; to discharge uninterruptedly.
Is it for thee the linnet pours his throat ? -- Pope.
Pour (v. i.) To flow, pass, or issue in a stream, or as a stream; to fall continuously and abundantly; as, the rain pours; the people poured out of the theater.
In the rude throng pour on with furious pace. -- Gay.
Pour (n.) A stream, or something like a stream; a flood. [Colloq.] "A pour of rain." -- Miss Ferrier.
Pour (v.) Cause to run; "pour water over the floor".
Pour (v.) Move in large numbers; "people were pouring out of the theater"; "beggars pullulated in the plaza" [syn: pour, swarm, stream, teem, pullulate].
Pour (v.) Pour out; "the sommelier decanted the wines" [syn: decant, pour, pour out].
Pour (v.) Flow in a spurt; "Water poured all over the floor".
Pour (v.) Supply in large amounts or quantities; "We poured money into the education of our children".
Pour (v.) Rain heavily; "Put on your rain coat-- it's pouring outside!" [syn: pour, pelt, stream, rain cats and dogs, rain buckets].
Poureliche (adv.) Poorly. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Pourer (n.) One who pours.
Pourlieu (n.) See Purlieu.
Compare: Purlieu
Purlieu (n.) [Written also pourlieu.] Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights.
Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play. -- Milton.
Purlieu (n.) Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. "The purlieus of St. James."
Brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court. -- Macaulay. Purlin
Pourparler (n.) [F.] (Diplomacy) A consultation preliminary to a treaty.
Pourparler, () French law. The conversations and negotiations which have taken place between the parties in order to make an agreement. These form no part of the agreement. Pard. Dr. Com. 142.
Pourparler, () The general rule in the common law is the same, parol proof cannot, therefore, be given to contradict, alter, add to, or diminish a written instrument, except in some particular cases. 1 Dall. 426; Dall. 340; 8 Serg. & Rawle, 609; 7 Serg. Rawle, 114.
Pourparties (n. pl. ) of Pourparty
Pourparty (n.) (Law) A division; a divided share.
To make pourparty, to divide and apportion lands previously held in common.
Purparty (n.) (Law) A share, part, or portion of an estate allotted to a coparcener. [Written also purpart, and pourparty.]
I am forced to eat all the game of your purparties, as well as my own thirds. -- Walpole.
Pourpoint (n.) [F.] A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.
Pourpresture (n.) (Law) See Purpresture.
Purpresture (n.) (Law) Wrongful encroachment upon another's property; esp., any encroachment upon, or inclosure of, that which should be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc. [Written also pourpresture.]
Poursuivant (n.) See Pursuivant.
Pursuivant (n.) [Written also poursuivant.] (Heralds' College) A functionary of lower rank than a herald, but discharging similar duties; -- called also pursuivant at arms; an attendant of the heralds. Also used figuratively.
The herald Hope, forerunning Fear, And Fear, the pursuivant of Hope. -- Longfellow.
Pursuivant (n.) The king's messenger; a state messenger.
One pursuivant who attempted to execute a warrant there was murdered. -- Macaulay.
Pursuivant. () A follower, a pursuer. In the ancient English law, it signified an officer who attended upon the king in his wars, at the council table, exchequer, in his court, &e., to be sent as a messenger. A poursuivant was, therefore, a messenger of the king.
Portray, (v. t.) [Written also pourtray.] [imp. & p. p. portrayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Portraying.] To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem. -- Ezek. iv. 1.
Portray, (v. t.) Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.
Portray, (v. t.) To adorn with pictures. [R.]
Spear and helmets thronged, and shields Various with boastful arguments potrayed. -- Milton.
Pourtray (v. t.) See Portray.
Pourveyance (n.) See Purveyance.
Pousse (n.) Pulse; pease. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Poussette (n.) A movement, or part of a figure, in the contradance. -- Dickens.
Poussette (v. i.) To perform a certain movement in a dance. [R.] -- Tennyson.
Down the middle, up again, poussette, and cross. -- J. & H. Smith.
Pout (n.) The young of some birds, as grouse; a young fowl. -- Carew.
Pout (v. i.) To shoot pouts. [Scot.]
Pouted (imp. & p. p.) of Pout
Pouting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Pout
Pout (v. i.) To thrust out the lips, as in sullenness or displeasure; hence, to look sullen.
Thou poutest upon thy fortune and thy love. -- Shak.
Pout (v. i.) To protrude. "Pouting lips." -- Dryden.
Pout (n.) A sullen protrusion of the lips; a fit of sullenness. "Jack's in the pouts." -- J. & H. Smith.
Pout (n.) (Zool.) The European whiting pout or bib.
Eel pout. (Zool.) See Eelpout.
Horn pout, or Horned pout. (Zool.) See Bullhead (b) .
Bib (n.) A small piece of cloth worn by children over the breast, to protect the clothes.
Bib (n.) (Zool.) An arctic fish ({Gadus luscus), allied to the cod; -- called also pout and whiting pout.
Bib (n.) A bibcock. Bib
Pout (n.) A disdainful grimace [syn: pout, moue, wry face]
Pout (n.) Marine eellike mostly bottom-dwelling fishes of northern seas [syn: eelpout, pout].
Pout (n.) Catfish common in eastern United States [syn: horned pout, hornpout, pout, Ameiurus Melas].
Pout (v.) Be in a huff and display one's displeasure; "She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted" [syn: sulk, pout, brood].
Pout (v.) Make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted" [syn: pout, mop, mow].
Pout (v.) [ I or T ] （生氣或性感地）噘嘴；嘟嘴巴 To push the lower lip forward to show you are annoyed, or to push both lips forward in a sexually attractive way.
// Vanessa always pouts if she doesn't get what she wants.
// Caroline pouts her lips when she's putting on lipstick.
Pouter (n.) One who, or that which, pouts.
Pouter (n.) (Zool.) A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast.
Pouter (n.) Someone with a habitually sullen or gloomy expression [syn: sourpuss, picklepuss, gloomy Gus, pouter].
Pouter (n.) One of a breed of pigeon that enlarge their crop until their breast is puffed out [syn: pouter pigeon, pouter].
Pouting (n.) Childish sullenness.
Poutingly (adv.) In a pouting, or a sullen, manner.
Poutingly (adv.) With a pout or in a pouting manner.
Povert (n.) Poverty. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Poverty (n.) [U] 貧窮，貧困；貧乏，缺少，神貧 The quality or state of being poor or indigent; want or scarcity of means of subsistence; indigence; need. "Swathed in numblest poverty." -- Keble.
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty. -- Prov. xxiii. 21.
Poverty (n.) Any deficiency of elements or resources that are needed or desired, or that constitute richness; as, poverty of soil; poverty of the blood; poverty of ideas.
Poverty grass (Bot.), A name given to several slender grasses (as Aristida dichotoma, and Danthonia spicata) which often spring up on old and worn-out fields.
Syn: Indigence; penury; beggary; need; lack; want; scantiness; sparingness; meagerness; jejuneness.
Usage: Poverty, Indigence, Pauperism. Poverty is a relative term; what is poverty to a monarch, would be competence for a day laborer. Indigence implies extreme distress, and almost absolute destitution. Pauperism denotes entire dependence upon public charity, and, therefore, often a hopeless and degraded state. Powan
Poverty (n.) The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions [syn: {poverty}, {poorness}, {impoverishment}] [ant: {wealth}, {wealthiness}].
Compare: Gwiniad
Gwiniad (n.) (Zo["o]l.) A fish ({Coregonus ferus) of North Wales and Northern Europe, allied to the lake whitefish; -- called also powan, and schelly. [Written also gwyniad, guiniad, gurniad.]
Powan (n.) Alt. of Powen
Powen (n.) (Zool.) A small British lake whitefish (Coregonus clupeoides, or C. ferus); -- called also gwyniad and lake herring.
Powder (n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
Grind their bones to powder small. -- Shak.
Powder (n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
Atlas powder, Baking powder, etc. See under Atlas, Baking, etc.
Powder down (Zool.), The peculiar dust, or exfoliation, of powder-down feathers.
Powder-down feather (Zool.), One of a peculiar kind of modified feathers which sometimes form patches on certain parts of some birds. They have a greasy texture and a scaly exfoliation.
Powder-down patch (Zool.), A tuft or patch of powder-down feathers.
Powder hose, A tube of strong linen, about an inch in diameter, filled with powder and used in firing mines. -- Farrow.
Powder hoy (Naut.), A vessel specially fitted to carry powder for the supply of war ships. They are usually painted red and carry a red flag.
Powder magazine, or Powder room. See Magazine, 2.
Powder mine, A mine exploded by gunpowder. See Mine.
Powder monkey (Naut.), A boy formerly employed on war vessels to carry powder; a powder boy.
Powder post. See Dry rot, under Dry.
Powder puff. See Puff, n.
Powdered (imp. & p. p.) of Powder
Powdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Powder
Powder (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
Powder (v. t.) To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars. -- Milton.
Powder (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. [Obs.]
Powder (v. i.) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
Powder (v. i.) To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
Powder (n.) A solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized [syn: powder, pulverization, pulverisation].
Powder (n. A mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks [syn: gunpowder, powder].
Powder (n.) Any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a pulverized powder.
Powder (v.) Make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust; "pulverize the grains" [syn: powderize, powderise, powder, pulverize, pulverise].
Powder (v.) Apply powder to; "She powdered her nose"; "The King wears a powdered wig".
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Powdered (a.) Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.
Powdered (a.) Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. [Obs.]
Powdered beef, pickled meats. -- Harvey.
Powdered (a.) (Her.) Same as Seme. -- Walpole.
Powdered (a.) Consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" [syn: powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverised, small-grained, fine-grained].
Powderflask (n.) A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.
Powderhorn (n.) A horn in which gunpowder is carried.
Powdering () a. & n. from Powder, v. t.
Powdering tub. (a) A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted.
Powdering tub. (b) A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Powdermill (n.) A mill in which gunpowder is made.
Powder-posted (a.) Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry. [U.S.]
Powdery (a.) Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.
Powdery (a.) Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
Powdery (a.) Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." -- Wordsworth.
Powdery (a.) Consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" [syn: powdered, powdery, pulverized, pulverised, small-grained, fine-grained].
Powdery (a.) As if dulled in color with a sprinkling of powder; "a powdery blue".