pulverine

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English

Etymology

From Latin pulvis, pulveris (“dust, powder”). Compare French pulvérin.

Noun

pulverine (uncountable)

  1. (dated) ashes of barilla
    • 1839, Andrew Ure, A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures, and Mines:
      Immersion in water would be apt to wash the nitre out of the pulverine ; but this result would be prevented if the match or priming mixture were liquefied or brought to the pasty consistence , not with water , but spirit varnish.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pulverine”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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