Any dry substance composed of minute particles, whether natural or artificial; more generally, a substance comminuted or triturated to fine particles. Thus dust is the powder of earth; flour is the powder of grain. But the word is particularly applied to substances reduced to fine particles for medicinal purposes.

A composition of saltpeter, sulphur and charcoal, mixed and granulated; gun-powder.

Hair powder; pulverized starch.

To reduce to fine particles; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate; to pound, grind or rub into fine particles.

To sprinkle with powder; as, to powder the hair.

To sprinkle with salt; to corn; as meat.

To come violently. -BOxA box in which hair-powder is kept.