pulverine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

Dated; Uncountable

"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."

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

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