Powdered

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Powder \Pow"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Powdered}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Powdering}.] [F. poudrer.]
     1. To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into
        a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
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     2. To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be
        sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
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              A circling zone thou seest
              Powdered with stars.                  --Milton.
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     3. To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat. [Obs.]
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Powdered \Pow"dered\, a.
     1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder.
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     2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. [Obs.]
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              Powdered beef, pickled meats.         --Harvey.
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     3. (Her.) Same as {Sem['e]}. --Walpole.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  powdered
       adj : consisting of fine particles; "powdered cellulose"; "powdery
             snow"; "pulverized sugar is prepared from granulated
             sugar by grinding" [syn: {powdery}, {pulverized}, {pulverised},
              {small-grained}, {fine-grained}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  46 Moby Thesaurus words for "powdered":
     branny, chalklike, chalky, comminute, comminuted, crushed,
     detrital, detrited, disintegrated, dotted, dusted, dusty,
     efflorescent, farinaceous, fine, flaky, floury, furfuraceous,
     gone to dust, grated, ground, impalpable, levigated, mealy, milled,
     peppered, pestled, powdery, pulverant, pulverized, pulverulent,
     reduced to powder, scaly, scobicular, scobiform, scurfy, sharded,
     shredded, spattered, specked, speckled, splattered, spotted,
     sprinkled, studded, triturated