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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
  1. An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: poeder
  • French: poudre
  • German: SchieíŸpulver
    (trans-mid)
  • Italian: polvere
    (trans-mid)
  • Spanish: pólvora
Etymology: Old English poudre, pouldre, French poudre, Old French also poldre, puldre, Latin pulvis, pulveris: cf. pollen fine flour, mill dust, E. pollen. Cf. {polverine}, {pulverize}.

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