powder-post
chiefly US
noun
The powder of worm-eaten wood; (also) the damaged condition of wood reduced to powder by boring larvae; occasionally figurative.
Origin
Late 18th century; earliest use found in Samuel Deane (1733–1814).
- liver fluke
- liver-grown
- liver-hearted
- liveried
- livering
- liverish
- liverishly
- liverishness
- liverleaf
- liverless
- liver line
- liver-lipped
- liver lips
- liver money
- liver mush
- liver of antimony
- liver of sulfur
- liver of sulphur
- liver oil
- liver opal
- live rough
- liver pad
- liver pill
- Liverpool
- Liverpool, 2nd Earl of