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verb
- apply powder to
- (transitive) To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.
- make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
- (intransitive) To use powder on the hair or skin.
- (intransitive) To turn into powder; to become powdery.
- (intransitive, slang) To depart suddenly; to "take a powder".
- (transitive) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
noun
- any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a pulverized powder
- a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks
- a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized
- Ellipsis of powder blue, a color.
- (informal) Ellipsis of powder snow; light, dry, fluffy snow.
- The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
- (cosmetics) A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
- An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
noun
adj
verb
- To be powdery or granular.
- (intransitive, of birds) To take a dust bath.
- (transitive, figurative) To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.
noun
- Powder of other material.
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
verb
verb
noun
- Talcum powder.
- a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder
- A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.
verb
- (transitive) To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
- (intransitive) To eagerly seize an opportunity.
- (transitive) To stamp holes in; to perforate.
- (intransitive) To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
- (transitive) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
- (intransitive) To attack suddenly by leaping.
- move down on as if in an attack
noun
- A sudden leaping attack.
- (historical) A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
- (mining) Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
- (historical) Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.
- Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
- A punch or stamp.
- the act of pouncing
noun
- (usually) The powder form of this drug, specifically.
- (uncountable, organic chemistry, pharmacology) An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.
- (countable) Any chemical derivative of this drug.
- a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive
verb
verb
- become powder or dust
- make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
- (transitive) To render into dust or powder.
- destroy completely
- (transitive) To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat soundly, thrash.
- (intransitive) To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
noun
- A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
- (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells.
- dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
- any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
verb
adj
- Powdery and resembling dust.
- Covered with dust.
- (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
- Grey or greyish.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).
- (British, slang, chiefly in negative constructions) Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad.
- covered with a layer of dust
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
noun
- An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
- (military, slang) A supply petty officer.
- (possibly only in the plural) A clump of dust; a dust bunny.
- A migrant farmer from the dustbowl.
- (informal) A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).
- A dustman.
- A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.
- A person of mixed race who has a swarthy complexion.
- A medium-brown color.
- An old person, especially one who is unwilling to change with the times.
- (rare) A duststorm.
noun
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
- A powder puff.
- a short light gust of air
- exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- thick cushion used as a seat
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
- (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A puffball.
- (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
- (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
- (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
- (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
adj
verb
- make proud or conceited
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- suck in or take (air)
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- smoke and exhale strongly
- praise extravagantly
- blow hard and loudly
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- (intransitive) To pant.
noun
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
verb
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
noun
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- (informal) An engine.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
verb
- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
noun
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- A difficulty or problem.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- An act of rubbing.
- (UK, naval slang) A loan.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
- an unforeseen obstacle
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
- (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
- (transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- move over something with pressure
- cause friction
noun
- A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
- (geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
- a substance that abrades or wears down
adj
verb
- To powder; to pulverize.
- To heat and spice something, such as wine.
- (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
- To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
- To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
- To dull or stupefy.
- reflect deeply on a subject
- heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink
noun
- (Scotland) A promontory.
- The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
- An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
- (dialectal, Northern England) Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.
- Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath.
- A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
- A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
- A thin, soft muslin.
- (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
- a term used in Scottish names of promontories
noun
- A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
- The action of the verb to sprinkle.
- A scattering.
- A light shower of rain.
- the act of sprinkling or splashing water
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
verb
noun
- Fine powder; flour.
- (Scotland) Zest, energy; pluck; sagacity; quickness of apprehension; gumption; spirit; mettle.
- The powder or finest part of ground malt.
- (mining) Smitham.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) Ore small enough to pass through the wire bottom of a sieve.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) A layer of clay or shale between two beds of coal.
noun
adj
verb
- To be powdery or granular.
- (intransitive, of birds) To take a dust bath.
- (transitive, figurative) To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.
noun
- Powder of other material.
- Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry.
- (US standards of identity) The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents.
- fine powdery foodstuff obtained by grinding and sifting the meal of a cereal grain
verb
verb
- apply powder to
- (transitive) To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.
- make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
- (intransitive) To use powder on the hair or skin.
- (intransitive) To turn into powder; to become powdery.
- (intransitive, slang) To depart suddenly; to "take a powder".
- (transitive) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
noun
- any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a pulverized powder
- a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks
- a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized
- Ellipsis of powder blue, a color.
- (informal) Ellipsis of powder snow; light, dry, fluffy snow.
- The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
- (cosmetics) A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
- An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
noun
- (usually) The powder form of this drug, specifically.
- (uncountable, organic chemistry, pharmacology) An addictive drug derived from coca (Erythroxylum) or prepared synthetically, used sometimes medicinally as a local anesthetic and, often illegally, as a stimulant.
- (countable) Any chemical derivative of this drug.
- a narcotic (alkaloid) extracted from coca leaves; used as a surface anesthetic or taken for pleasure; can become powerfully addictive
verb
verb
noun
- Talcum powder.
- a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder
- A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.
noun
- A dry colorant, usually an insoluble powder.
- (biology) Any color in plant or animal cells.
- dry coloring material (especially a powder to be mixed with a liquid to produce paint, etc.)
- a substance used as a coating to protect or decorate a surface (especially a mixture of pigment suspended in a liquid); dries to form a hard coating
- any substance whose presence in plant or animal tissues produces a characteristic color
verb
noun
- a soft spherical object made from fluffy fibers; for applying powder to the skin
- A powder puff.
- a short light gust of air
- exaggerated praise (as for promotional purposes)
- a slow inhalation (as of tobacco smoke)
- bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together
- thick cushion used as a seat
- forceful exhalation through the nose or mouth
- a light inflated pastry or puff shell
- (uncountable) The ability to breathe easily while exerting oneself.
- A puffball.
- (uncountable, slang) The drug cannabis.
- (countable) A flamboyant or alluring statement of praise.
- (countable) A small quantity of gas or smoke in the air.
- (countable) A sudden but small gust of wind, smoke, etc.
- (genetics) A region of a chromosome exhibiting a local increase in diameter.
- A portion of fabric gathered up so as to be left full in the middle.
- (derogatory, chiefly Northern England, slang) Synonym of poof: a gay man; especially one who is effeminate.
- (informal, countable) An act of inhaling smoke from a cigarette, cigar or pipe.
- (countable) A sharp exhalation of a small amount of breath through the mouth.
- (countable) A light cake filled with cream, cream cheese, etc.
adj
verb
- make proud or conceited
- speak in a blustering or scornful manner
- breathe noisily, as when one is exhausted
- suck in or take (air)
- to swell or cause to enlarge
- smoke and exhale strongly
- praise extravagantly
- blow hard and loudly
- To cause to swell or dilate; to inflate.
- To inflate with pride, flattery, self-esteem, etc.; often with up.
- To swell with air; to be dilated or inflated.
- To blow as an expression of scorn.
- (intransitive) To emit smoke, gas, etc., in puffs.
- To praise with exaggeration; to flatter; to call public attention to by praises; to praise unduly.
- To drive with a puff, or with puffs.
- To repel with words; to blow at contemptuously.
- To breathe in a swelling, inflated, or pompous manner; hence, to assume importance.
- (intransitive) To pant.
noun
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- Something that has been reduced to powder, something that has been ground.
- The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction.
- an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
- the grade of particle fineness to which a substance is ground
- hard monotonous routine work
- A specific degree of pulverization of coffee beans.
- A grinding trick on a skateboard or snowboard.
- (uncountable, slang) Hustle; hard work.
- A traditional communal pilot whale hunt in the Faroe Islands.
- (uncountable, music) Clipping of grindcore (“subgenre of heavy metal”).
- A tedious and laborious task.
verb
- make a grating or grinding sound by rubbing together
- reduce to small pieces or particles by pounding or abrading
- press or grind with a crushing noise
- created by grinding
- dance by rotating the pelvis in an erotically suggestive way, often while in contact with one's partner such that the dancers' legs are interlaced
- work hard
- shape or form by grinding
- (transitive) To reduce to smaller pieces by crushing with lateral motion.
- (sports, intransitive) To slide the flat portion of a skateboard or snowboard across an obstacle such as a railing.
- (slang, Hawaii) To eat.
- (slang) To dance in a sexually suggestive way with both partners in very close proximity, often pressed against each other.
- To produce mechanically and repetitively as if by turning a crank.
- (slang) To rub one's body against another's in a sexual way; to frottage.
- To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate.
- (transitive) To shape with the force of friction.
- (metalworking) To remove material by rubbing with an abrasive surface.
- (transitive) To operate by turning a crank.
- To instill through repetitive teaching.
- (video games) To repeat a task a large number of times in a row to achieve a specific goal.
- (intransitive, slang) To work or study hard; to hustle or drudge.
- (transitive, slang) To annoy or irritate (a person); to grind one's gears.
- (intransitive) To become ground, pulverized, or polished by friction.
- (transitive) To oppress, hold down or weaken.
- (slang, intransitive) To rotate the hips erotically.
noun
- the act of grinding to a powder or dust
- machinery that processes materials by grinding or crushing
- a plant consisting of one or more buildings with facilities for manufacturing
- One thousandth part in millage rates of property tax.
- (historical) A prison treadmill.
- (collectible card games) A strategy centered on depleting the opponent's deck.
- One thousandth of a US dollar, or one tenth of a cent.
- A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; any similar apparatus that otherwise processes.
- (engineering, manufacturing) Alternative form of mil (“one thousandth of an inch”).
- A milling cutter used on such a machine.
- (mining) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- (CB radio slang) A typewriter used to transcribe messages received.
- A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. (Some are small and simple, and some are large and complex.)
- (US military slang, World War I, World War II) A military prison, either guardhouse or post prison.
- (collectible card games) Discarding a card from one's deck.
- (figurative, derogatory) An institution or pseudo-institutional business awarding credentials (such as diplomas, degrees, certificates, or certifications) of either dubious value or fraudulent nature; one selling essays or other documents for the buyers (usually students) to fraudulently pass off as their own.
- A milling machine for machining of solid metal, wood, or plastic.
- The building housing such a grinding apparatus; also, any similar building that houses a similarly material activity (such as weaving, fulling, dying, etc.); the place of business comprising such a building and its outbuildings and grounds.
- A line of three matching pieces in nine men's morris and related games.
- (informal) Clipping of millimeter.
- The raised or ridged edge or surface made in milling anything, such as a coin or screw.
- The building complex housing such a plant; the place of business comprising such buildings and their grounds.
- (informal) An engine.
- A machine for grinding and polishing.
- (figurative, usually derogatory) An establishment that handles a certain type of situation or procedure routinely, or produces large quantities of an item without much regard to quality. (The notion of churning out massive amounts indiscriminately underlies the figurative metaphor.)
- A manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, flooring, and some other kinds of materials.
- (military slang, World War I, World War II) A delousing station: a cootie mill.
- (die sinking) A hardened steel roller with a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, such as copper.
- (informal) Alternative form of mil (“million”).
- (mining) A passage underground through which ore is shot.
verb
- roll out (metal) with a rolling machine
- produce a ridge around the edge of
- move about in a confused manner
- grind with a mill
- (transitive) To grind or otherwise process in a mill or other machine.
- (intransitive) To undergo hulling.
- (transitive) To roll (steel, etc.) into bars.
- (transitive) To cause to mill, or circle around.
- (intransitive, slang) To take part in a fistfight; to box.
- (transitive, collectible card games) To move (a card) from a deck to the discard pile.
- (zoology, of air-breathing creatures) To swim underwater.
- (transitive, mining) To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
- (zoology, of a whale) To swim suddenly in a new direction.
- (transitive, Hearthstone) To destroy (a card) due to having a full hand.
- To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- (transitive) To shape, polish, dress or finish using a machine.
- (intransitive, followed by around, about, etc.) To move about in an aimless fashion.
- (transitive) To engrave one or more grooves or a pattern around the edge of (a cylindrical object such as a coin).
- (transitive, slang) To beat; to pound.
- (transitive) To make (drinking chocolate) frothy, as by churning.
noun
- Any substance designed to be applied by rubbing.
- A difficulty or problem.
- A mixture of spices applied to meat before it is barbecued.
- In the game of crown green bowls, any obstacle by which a bowl is diverted from its normal course.
- An act of rubbing.
- (UK, naval slang) A loan.
- the act of rubbing or wiping
- an unforeseen obstacle
verb
- To scour; to burnish; to polish; to brighten; to cleanse; often with up or over.
- (transitive) To move (one object) while maintaining contact with another object over some area, with pressure and friction.
- To hinder; to cross; to thwart.
- (intransitive) To be rubbed against something.
- (transitive) To spread a substance thinly over; to smear.
- (transitive, bowls) To touch the jack with the bowl.
- scrape or rub as if to relieve itching
- move over something with pressure
- cause friction
noun
- A hard inorganic substance or material consisting in powder or granule form such as sandpaper, pumice, or emery, used for cleaning, smoothing, or polishing.
- (geology) Rock fragments, sand grains, mineral particles, used by water, wind, and ice to abrade a land surface.
- a substance that abrades or wears down
adj
noun
- A small thinly distributed amount, e.g. of some liquid, powder or other fine substance that is sprinkled on to something.
- The action of the verb to sprinkle.
- A scattering.
- A light shower of rain.
- the act of sprinkling or splashing water
- a light shower that falls in some locations and not others nearby
- a small number (of something) dispersed haphazardly
- the act of sprinkling water in baptism (rare)
verb
noun
- Fine powder; flour.
- (Scotland) Zest, energy; pluck; sagacity; quickness of apprehension; gumption; spirit; mettle.
- The powder or finest part of ground malt.
- (mining) Smitham.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) Ore small enough to pass through the wire bottom of a sieve.
- (UK dialectal, Northern England) A layer of clay or shale between two beds of coal.
verb
- apply powder to
- (transitive) To sprinkle with powder, or as if with powder.
- make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
- (intransitive) To use powder on the hair or skin.
- (intransitive) To turn into powder; to become powdery.
- (intransitive, slang) To depart suddenly; to "take a powder".
- (transitive) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder.
noun
- any of various cosmetic or medical preparations dispensed in the form of a pulverized powder
- a mixture of potassium nitrate, charcoal, and sulfur in a 75:15:10 ratio which is used in gunnery, time fuses, and fireworks
- a solid substance in the form of tiny loose particles; a solid that has been pulverized
- Ellipsis of powder blue, a color.
- (informal) Ellipsis of powder snow; light, dry, fluffy snow.
- The fine particles which are the result of reducing a dry substance by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or the result of decay; dust.
- (cosmetics) A mixture of fine dry, sweet-smelling particles applied to the face or other body parts, to reduce shine or to alleviate chaffing.
- An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
verb
noun
- Talcum powder.
- a fine grained mineral having a soft soapy feel and consisting of hydrated magnesium silicate; used in a variety of products including talcum powder
- A soft mineral, composed of hydrated magnesium silicate, that has a soapy feel and a greenish, whitish, or grayish color, and usually occurs in foliated masses.
verb
- (transitive) To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder.
- (intransitive) To eagerly seize an opportunity.
- (transitive) To stamp holes in; to perforate.
- (intransitive) To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something.
- (transitive) To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons.
- (intransitive) To attack suddenly by leaping.
- move down on as if in an attack
noun
- A sudden leaping attack.
- (historical) A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface.
- (mining) Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
- (historical) Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc.
- Cloth worked in eyelet holes.
- A punch or stamp.
- the act of pouncing
verb
- become powder or dust
- make into a powder by breaking up or cause to become dust
- (transitive) To render into dust or powder.
- destroy completely
- (transitive) To completely destroy, especially by crushing to fragments or a powder.
- (transitive, figurative) To defeat soundly, thrash.
- (intransitive) To become reduced to powder; to fall to dust.
noun
adj
verb
- To be powdery or granular.
- (intransitive, of birds) To take a dust bath.
- (transitive, figurative) To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.
verb
- To powder; to pulverize.
- To heat and spice something, such as wine.
- (usually with over) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
- To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
- To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
- To dull or stupefy.
- reflect deeply on a subject
- heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink
noun
- (Scotland) A promontory.
- The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
- An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
- (dialectal, Northern England) Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.
- Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath.
- A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
- A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
- A thin, soft muslin.
- (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
- a term used in Scottish names of promontories
noun
adj
verb
- To be powdery or granular.
- (intransitive, of birds) To take a dust bath.
- (transitive, figurative) To crush or subdue; to overwhelm.
- (transitive) To beat or reduce to powder or dust; to pulverise.
- (ambitransitive, agriculture) To break up soil or organic matter into a fine, powdery texture, often by means of a special plow.
adj
- Powdery and resembling dust.
- Covered with dust.
- (figurative) Old; outdated; stuffily traditional.
- Grey or greyish.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Ugly, disgusting (a general term of abuse).
- (British, slang, chiefly in negative constructions) Ugly, unwell, inadequate, bad.
- covered with a layer of dust
- lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new
noun
- An old bottle of spirits that has been kept for a long time.
- (military, slang) A supply petty officer.
- (possibly only in the plural) A clump of dust; a dust bunny.
- A migrant farmer from the dustbowl.
- (informal) A miller (from the image of millers being covered in flour dust).
- A dustman.
- A recording of music from another era, especially R&B; an oldie.
- A person of mixed race who has a swarthy complexion.
- A medium-brown color.
- An old person, especially one who is unwilling to change with the times.
- (rare) A duststorm.