† pulvisclen.
Obsolete.
A fine powder; a speck of dust.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > granular texture > [noun] > state of being powdery > fine
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1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 62/1 Take Rue, Betonye [etc.]..make heerof a fine pulviscle [Ger. ein gar rein subtil Puluer], and use it with your meates.
1670 S. Gott Divine Hist. Genesis World 233 By..compression and the Agitation of the Air they are at length broken and Comminuted into those little Bodys or Pulviscles which we call Motes.
1675 G. Thomson Ορθο-μέθοδος ἰατρο-χυμικὴ: Direct Method curing Chymically xiii. 102 They may make momentany Separation and rarefaction of the massie, close hard, firm Constitution of Gold taking into their bosome, and there obsconding from the eye, those small Pulviscles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2020).
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