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powdered, ppl. a.|ˈpaʊdəd|
[f. powder v.1]
†1. Of food: Sprinkled or seasoned with salt or spice. Also fig. ‘Seasoned’. Obs.
1563B. Googe Eglogs, etc. (Arb.) 83 Our sighes, and powdred sobs with tears. 1587R. Baynes in Turberv. Trag. T. To Rdr., Poets pens..Whose powdred saaes are mixt, with pleasure, and delight. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. 1 Reason..began this motherly, and well powdered tale.
2. a. Salted, pickled, or spiced for future use; preserved; cured; corned. ? Obs. exc. dial.
1409Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 53 In xvj powdret fish empt. xs. c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 533 Mustard is meete for brawne, beef, or powdred motoun. 1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 52/2 By eatinge of pouldred or saulted meate. 1667Denham Direct. Paint. ii. ix, Out of the very Beer, they sell the Malt; Powder of Powder, from powder'd Beef the Salt. 1736Carte Ormonde II. 322 Powdered beef and pork imported from Ireland. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xxvi, Lord Allan, rest his saul, used to like a pouthered guse.
†b. transf.: cf. powdering-tub 2. Obs.
1603Shakes. Meas. for M. iii. ii. 62 Shee hath eaten vp all her beefe, and she is her selfe in the tub... Euer your fresh Whore, and your pouder'd Bawd.
3. a. Decorated with a multitude of spots or small figures scattered over the surface; spangled.
c1420Lydg. Assembly of Gods 266 A mantell..Of blak sylke, purfylyd with poudryd hermyne. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. ii. 25 On his shield..He bore a crowned little Ermelin, That deckt the azure field with her fayre pouldred skin. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. ii. (ed. 3) 12 Powdered or Poudrée is substituted for Semée.
b. Zool. Marked with numerous minute dots or spots closely placed, as if dusted over with powder. Said esp. of moths.
1832J. Rennie Conspect Butterfl. & Moths 57 The Powdered Quaker (Orthosia sparsa). Ibid. 62 The Powdered Rustic (Caradrina superstes). Ibid. 89 The Powdered Wainscot (Simyra renosa)... Wings..first pair hoary, sprinkled with minute black spots.
4. Of the hair or skin: Dressed with powder as a cosmetic. Also said of the person. Also in parasynthetic combination.
1655Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 146 A dresse of powdered hayre. 1716Gay Trivia i. 127 The powder'd footman..Beneath his flapping Hat secures his Hair. 1848Dickens Dombey vii, The greater part of the furniture was of the powdered-head and pig-tail period. Ibid. xxxviii, The powdered-headed ancestor. 1863‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage (1870) 10 The powdered servant who opened the door.
†5. [? f. powder n.1 3 + -ed2.] Charged with, or fired by, gunpowder. Also fig. Obs. rare.
1575J. B. in Gascoigne's Wks. ⁋⁋⁋⁋ij b, In bloudie broyles, where pouldred shot was rife. a1618Sylvester Tobacco Battered Ded. to W. Loe, You'll need no Warning to avoid our Peal; Nor are in Level of our Poudred Pen.
6. Reduced to powder or dust; pulverized.
1591Spenser Ruines Rome xxvii, Againe on foote to reare her pouldred corse. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 53 Powdered glasse emits no fume or exhalation although it bee laid upon a red hot iron. 1765Univ. Mag. XXXVII. 320/2 Ground and powdered refined sugar. 1864Bowen Logic x. 326 Powdered chalk..will always be insoluble.
7. Applied to foods that have been reduced to the form of a powder by dehydration.
1889in A. Davis Package & Print (1967) Pl. 69 Pancake flour—self-rising mixture—..powdered milk without butter fat, corn sugar, [etc.]. 1909Chem. Abstr. 933 Powdered milks are made to contain varying amounts of fat by the removal of more or less fat cream before evaporation. 1917Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 2 Jan. 363/1 The Cabell Company, Baltimore, Md... Velvet Particular description of goods.—Powdered Egg. Claims use since Sept. 1, 1916. 1917Bakers Rev. Nov. 13 (Advt.), Velvet Powdered Egg, made from selected fresh hen eggs, is entirely and instantly soluble. 1919N.Y. Times 14 Dec. iii. 5/1 Dry eggs from China..include the white of egg, the yolk of egg, and powdered whole egg. 1925T. M. Rector Sci. Preservation Food xii. 172 Hermetic sealing is not used in the preservation of eggs and egg products though there is certainly a field for it in ‘powdered’ egg. 1935Economist 3 Aug. 226/2 As for powdered and condensed milk,..these imported milk products are going to be made artificially scarce. 1943Industr. & Engin. Chem. XXXV. 1204/2 The losses of vitamin D in powdered whole egg during storage were studied at two temperatures, 15° and 98·6°F. 1953Ann. Reg. 1952 153 The provision of powdered milk every day for over a million children. 1972G. Durrell Catch me a Colobus v. 84 Complan, a sort of powdered milk which we found was very useful for rearing baby animals. 1980Sunday Times (Colour Suppl.) 20 Jan. 70/1, I have orange juice..then..a cup of powdered coffee. |