powder puff

A ball of light feathers or down used for powdering the hair or skin. powder-room, s. Naut .: The apartment in a ship where powder is kept. *pow-der (1), v . i . [POWDER (1), s.] To fall or come down violently. "Whilst two companions were disputing it at sword's point, down comes a kite powdering upon them, and gobbets up both."- L ' Estrange : Fables. IMG:content-1421.png:[blocks in formation] 2. To sprinkle with, or as with, powder; as, to powder the hair, to powder the face. 3. To sprinkle with salt, as meat; to corn. *4. To scatter, to strew, to sprinkle. "Some thither brought to fatten, With villages amongst oft pow the red here and there." Drayton: Polyolbion, s. 18. B. Intransitive: 1. To become like powder or dust; to fall or be reduced to powder. 2. To powder the hair; to use powder on the hair or skin. powdered, *pou-drid, *pow-dred, pa. par. & a. [POWDER (2), v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb). B. As adjective : I. Ordinary Language: 1. Reduced to a powder. 2. Sprinkled with powder. 3. Corned or salted, as meat. 4. Mixed with salt; as, powdered butter. *5. Sprinkled over; strewed. ( Milton : P. L., vii. 58.) II. Her.: The same as SEMÉ (q. v.). powdered-quaker, s. Entom.: A European night moth, Tæniocampa gracilis. powdered-wainscot, s. Entom.: A European night moth, Simyra venosa. powder-ing, *poul-der-ing, pr. par. & 8. [POWDER (2), υ.] A. As pr.par.: (See the verb.) B. As substantive: 1. The act of reducing to or sprinkling with powder. 2. A general term for any device used in filling up vacant spaces in carved work. "Meretricious paintings, frizlings, poulder ings , attyr ings and the like." -Prynne: 1 Histrio- Mastiz , vi. 1. *powdering-tub, s. 1. A tub or ve el in which meat is corned or salted. 2. A heated tub in which an infected lecher was subjected to sweating as a cure. "From the powd'ring - tub of infamy Fetch forth the lazar kite Doll Tearsheet." Shakesp.: Henry V. , ii. 1.