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Webster 1913 Edition

Polverine

Pol′ve-rine

,

Noun.

[It.

polverino

, fr.

polvere [GREEK]

ust, L.

pulvis

,

-veris

. See

.]

Glassmaker’s ashes; a kind of potash or pearlash, brought from the Levant and Syria, – used in the manufacture of fine glass.