Shahi - A visual dictionary

(noun)
1. The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.
  Grind their bones to powder small. —Shakespeare
2. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
(verb)
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
  to powder the hair.
  A circling zone thou seest / Powdered with stars. --Milton.
3. To be reduced to powder; to become like powder.
  Some salts powder easily.
4. To use powder on the hair or skin; as,
  She paints and powders.

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