From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Powdered \Pow"dered\, adjective
1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.
2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. [Obs.]
Powdered beef, pickled meats. --Harvey.
3. (Her.) Same as {Sem['e]}. --Walpole.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Powder \Pow"der\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Powdered}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Powdering}.] [F. poudrer.]
1. To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
2. To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
A circling zone thou seest Powdered with stars. --Milton.
3. To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. [Obs.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated sugar by grinding" [syn: {powdery}, {pulverized}, {pulverised}, {small-grained}, {fine-grained}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "powdered": branny, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, crushed, detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dotted, dusted, dusty, efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, floury, furfuraceous, gone to dust, grated, ground, impalpable, levigated, mealy, milled, peppered, pestled, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent, reduced to powder, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded, shredded, spattered, specked, speckled, splattered, spotted, sprinkled, studded, triturated
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