pulverulent

[Lat. pulverulent us, from pulvis (gen it. pulver is )=dust; Fr. pulvérulent.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. Dusty; consisting of dust or fine powder; pow. dery. "Calcareous stone is sometimes found in the pulver ulent form." -Sir J. Hill: Materia Medica . *2. Addicted to lying or rolling in the dust, as fowls. II. Bot.: Covered with powdery matter. *půl-vil', s. [PULVILLO.] *půl-vil', v . t. [PULVILLO.) To sprinkle with pulvil; to powder. "Have you pulvilled the coachman and postilion that they may not stink of the stabie?"-Congreve: Way of the World, iv. pul-vil-lō, *pul-vil-1-ō, *půl-vil', s . [Spanish, from Lat. pulvillus = a light cushion filled with perfumes, contract. from pulvinulus , dim in. from pulvinus a cushion; pulvis = powder.] A sweet scented powder, formerly used as a perfume, and contained in a little bag. "The nauseous scents of their perfumes and pulvilios ." -Country Gentleman's Vade - mecum (1699). půl-vil-lŭs, s. [PULVINULUS.] pul-vi-nar, subst. [Lat.=a splendidly covered cushioned couch.] Anat.: The posterior tubercle of the cerebrum. pul-vin-ate, adj. [Lat. pulvinatus, from pul vin us =a cushion.] Bot.: The same as PULVINI FORM (q. v.). pine, pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pot, pulvinated pül-vin-at-ěd, a. [PULVINATE.] Arch.: A term applied to a frieze whose face is convex instead of plain, from its supposed resemblance to the side of a cush ion, which swells out when pre ed upon. pul-vin - I - form, adj. [Lat. pulvinus =a cushion, and form a form.] Bot.: Cushion-like, convex, or somewhat flattened. půl-vin' - u-lūs, půlvil-lus ( pl . pul-vin'u-li, půl-vil-li), s. [Lat., dim in. from pulvinus = a cushion.] 1. Botany : (1) An accumulation of naked spores. (2) Pl .: Spongy excres Pulvinated. cences, sometimes like minute trees rising from the thallus of lichens. ( Greville.) 2. Entom . ( pl .): The cushions on the feet of the Diptera, as the fly.