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Webster 1913 Edition
Powdery
Pow′der-y
,Adj.
1.
Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose;
as, a
. powdery
spar2.
Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty;
as, the
. powdery
bloom on plums3.
Resembling powder; consisting of powder.
“The powdery snow.” Wordsworth.
Webster 1828 Edition
Powdery
POW'DERY
,Adj.
1.
Dusty; sprinkled with powder.2.
Resembling powder.Definition 2025
powdery
powdery
English
Adjective
powdery (comparative more powdery, superlative most powdery)
- Of or pertaining to powder.
- 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, ch. 21,
- We were plowing through great deeps of powdery alkali dust that rose in thick clouds and floated across the plain like smoke from a burning house. We were coated with it like millers; so were the coach, the mules, the mail-bags, the driver—we and the sage-brush and the other scenery were all one monotonous color.
- 1872, Mark Twain, Roughing It, ch. 21,
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Translations
of or pertaining to powder
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