- A powder - Bathroom powder - Body powder - Fine powder - Magnesium silicate dust used in dental cavities - Mineral used to fill dental caries - Perfumed powder
- The act of breathing on or into anything - The breathing upon a person in the sacrament of
baptism to symbolize the inspiration of a new spiritual life. - The act of blowing (a gas, powder, or vapor) into any
cavity of the body.
- Yielding farinaa; as, farinose substances. - Civered with a sort of white, mealy powder, as the leaves
of some poplars, and the body of certain insects; mealy.
- Arms reduction - Devaluation - Diminution in value or quantity - Lessening - The act of reducing, or state of being reduced;
conversion to a given state or condition; diminution; conquest; as, the
reduction of a body to powder; the reduction of things to order; the
reduction of the expenses of government; the reduction of a rebellious
province. - The act or process of reducing. See Reduce, v. t., 6.
and To reduce an equation, To reduce an expression, under Reduce, v. t. - The correction of observations for known errors of
instruments, etc.
- The act or process of cementing. - A process which consists in surrounding a solid body
with the powder of other substances, and heating the whole to a degree
not sufficient to cause fusion, the physical properties of the body
being changed by chemical combination with powder; thus iron becomes
steel by cementation with charcoal, and green glass becomes porcelain
by cementation with sand.