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Rasp :: Rasp (v. t.) To rub or file with a rasp; to rub or grate with a rough file; as, to rasp wood to make it smooth; to rasp bones to powder..

Porporino :: Porporino (n.) A composition of quicksilver, tin, and sulphur, forming a yellow powder, sometimes used by mediaeval artists, for the sake of economy, instead of gold..

Chamber :: Chamber (n.) A cavity in a mine, usually of a cubical form, to contain the powder..

Insufflation :: Insufflation (n.) The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any cavity of the body..

Crocin :: Crocin (n.) A red powder (called also polychroite), which is made from the saffron (Crocus sativus). See Polychroite..

Wharp :: Wharp (n.) A kind of fine sand from the banks of the Trent, used as a polishing powder..

Pluff :: Pluff (n.) A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder..

Flower :: Flower (n.) A substance in the form of a powder, especially when condensed from sublimation; as, the flowers of sulphur..

Gunpowder :: Gunpowder (n.) A black, granular, explosive substance, consisting of an intimate mechanical mixture of niter, charcoal, and sulphur. It is used in gunnery and blasting..

Dentifrice :: Dentifrice (n.) A powder or other substance to be used in cleaning the teeth; tooth powder.

Bergmeal :: Bergmeal (n.) An earthy substance, resembling fine flour. It is composed of the shells of infusoria, and in Lapland and Sweden is sometimes eaten, mixed with flour or ground birch bark, in times of scarcity. This name is also given to a white powdery variety of calcite..

Kamptulicon :: Kamptulicon (n.) A kind of elastic floor cloth, made of India rubber, gutta-percha, linseed oil, and powdered cork..

Titanium :: Titanium (n.) An elementary substance found combined in the minerals manaccanite, rutile, sphene, etc., and isolated as an infusible iron-gray amorphous powder, having a metallic luster. It burns when heated in the air. Symbol Ti. Atomic weight 48.1..

Foul :: Foul (v. t.) To incrust (the bore of a gun) with burnt powder in the process of firing.

Pulverous :: Pulverous (a.) Consisting of dust or powder; like powder.

Zirconium :: Zirconium (n.) A rare element of the carbon-silicon group, intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. Symbol Zr. Atomic weight, 90.4..

Primer :: Primer (n.) an instrument or device for priming; esp., a cap, tube, or water containing percussion powder or other compound for igniting a charge of gunpowder..

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

Guy :: Guy (n.) A grotesque effigy, like that of Guy Fawkes, dressed up in England on the fifth of November, the day of the Gunpowder Plot..

Farinose :: Farinose (a.) Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy..

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