Index of English words, starting with "po"

(1) - Powder (v. i.) To use powder on the hair or skin; as, she paints and powders.
(2) - Powder (v. i.) To be reduced to powder; to become like powder; as, some salts powder easily.
(3) - Powder (v. t.) To sprinkle with salt; to corn, as meat.
(4) - Powder (v. t.) To sprinkle with powder, or as with powder; to be sprinkle; as, to powder the hair.
(5) - Powder (v. t.) To reduce to fine particles; to pound, grind, or rub into a powder; to comminute; to pulverize; to triturate.
(6) - Powder (n.) An explosive mixture used in gunnery, blasting, etc.; gunpowder. See Gunpowder.
(7) - Powder (n.) The fine particles to which any dry substance is reduced by pounding, grinding, or triturating, or into which it falls by decay; dust.

(1) - Powdery (a.) Resembling powder; consisting of powder.
(2) - Powdery (a.) Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums.
(3) - Powdery (a.) Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar.

(1) - Power (n.) A mechanical agent; that from which useful mechanical energy is derived; as, water power; steam power; hand power, etc.
(2) - Power (n.) Ability to act, regarded as latent or inherent; the faculty of doing or performing something; capacity for action or performance; capability of producing an effect, whether physical or moral: potency; might; as, a man of great power; the power of capillary attraction; money gives power.
(3) - Power (n.) Ability, regarded as put forth or exerted; strength, force, or energy in action; as, the power of steam in moving an engine; the power of truth, or of argument, in producing conviction; the power of enthusiasm.
(4) - Power (n.) Capacity of undergoing or suffering; fitness to be acted upon; susceptibility; -- called also passive power; as, great power of endurance.
(5) - Power (n.) The exercise of a faculty; the employment of strength; the exercise of any kind of control; influence; dominion; sway; command; government.
(6) - Power (n.) The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity.
(7) - Power (n.) A military or naval force; an army or navy; a great host.
(8) - Power (n.) Same as Poor, the fish.
(9) - Power (n.) The rate at which mechanical energy is exerted or mechanical work performed, as by an engine or other machine, or an animal, working continuously; as, an engine of twenty horse power.
(10) - Power (n.) Hence, vested authority to act in a given case; as, the business was referred to a committee with power.
(11) - Power (n.) Applied force; force producing motion or pressure; as, the power applied at one and of a lever to lift a weight at the other end.
(12) - Power (n.) A machine acted upon by an animal, and serving as a motor to drive other machinery; as, a dog power.
(13) - Power (n.) The product arising from the multiplication of a number into itself; as, a square is the second power, and a cube is third power, of a number.
(14) - Power (n.) Mental or moral ability to act; one of the faculties which are possessed by the mind or soul; as, the power of thinking, reasoning, judging, willing, fearing, hoping, etc.
(15) - Power (n.) The degree to which a lens, mirror, or any optical instrument, magnifies; in the telescope, and usually in the microscope, the number of times it multiplies, or augments, the apparent diameter of an object; sometimes, in microscopes, the number of times it multiplies the apparent surface.
(16) - Power (n.) An authority enabling a person to dispose of an interest vested either in himself or in another person; ownership by appointment.
(17) - Power (n.) A large quantity; a great number; as, a power o/ good things.