Sago occurs in commerce in two states, pulverulent and granulated. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Nearly all the face of the country was covered with alkali dust, which, in a light, pulverulent state, rose and filled the air at the slightest breeze or other disturbance. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
Of these the most important is the proper admixture of the ingredients, and the condition of the manure as regards dryness, complete reduction to the pulverulent state, and the like. From Wordnik.com. [Elements of Agricultural Chemistry] Reference
These are plants growing in sea or fresh water, or on damp surfaces, with a filamentous, or more rarely a leaf-like pulverulent or gelatinous thallus; the last two forms essentially microscopic. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883] Reference
It is pulverulent and light, though somewhat lumpy. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
But here, again, pulverulent Dr. Hartwig leaves us untold who. From Wordnik.com. [Love's Meinie Three Lectures on Greek and English Birds] Reference
The reptile is crushed and the blood collected, dried, and used in a pulverulent form. From Wordnik.com. [Seventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1885-1886, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1891] Reference
The virtual discovery of its pulverulent condition dates, then, according to Professor Darwin, from 1848. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
It has no lumps of earth, but is reduced to a granular state; or in other words it is pulverulent and light. From Wordnik.com. [Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds] Reference
Peck says (Boleti U. S., p. 126) that "the tufted mode of growth, the pulverulent pileus and paler spores separate this species". From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
The gills are powdered by the spores, that is, the spores fall away with difficulty and thus give the gills a pulverulent appearance. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
Two hours 'work hardly sufficed to complete this troublesome task, but at length the chamber was clear of the pulverulent bed, which rose in clouds at the slightest movement. From Wordnik.com. [Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery] Reference
The original description published in Grevillea = 1 =: 36, should be modified, especially in regard to the size of the plant, its habit, and the pulverulent condition of the pileus. From Wordnik.com. [Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.] Reference
The whole may be formed into a pafle with water, or otherwife the pulverulent mixture is to be introduced into the retort; but I prefer the firft method, as I have already remarked. From Wordnik.com. [A Journal of natural philosophy, chemistry, and the arts ..] Reference
And these substances are found in guano already in a pulverulent state, while bones have to be reduced by mechanical or chemical means to the same condition before they are of any use as manure. From Wordnik.com. [Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers] Reference
Chelsea to Clapham was lengthened, first into a loop of side streets, and then when the first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand, into a new loop down King's Road, and once even through the. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Mr. Lewisham] Reference
For if the rings were solid, the swiftest rates of rotation should be at their outer edges, corresponding to wider circles described in the same period; while, if they are pulverulent, the inverse relation must hold good. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition] Reference
Almost any basket could be utilized on occasion for separating fine from coarse particles of food or other pulverulent substances, but special forms were sometimes made for the purpose, having varying degrees of refinement to suit the material to be separated. From Wordnik.com. [Prehistoric Textile Art of Eastern United States Thirteenth Annual Report of the Beaurau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 1891-1892, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1896 pages 3-46] Reference
A subsequent wetting of the clods, which is not sufficient to expand it to its former condition, will not entirely obliterate the cracks, and the next drying will be followed by new fissures within the clods themselves; and a frequent repetition of this process will make the network of fissures finer and finer, until the whole mass of the soil is divided to a pulverulent condition. From Wordnik.com. [Draining for Profit, and Draining for Health] Reference
A clayish, adhesive, finely pulverulent mass, which cakes on drying. From Wordnik.com. [Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries] Reference
I pretty well pulverized myself for a pulverulent, Katy, which is a poor joke. ". From Wordnik.com. [Her father`s daughter] Reference
"extreme tenuity or impalpable state of pulverulent substances," clearly shows the origin of the article. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
“extreme tenuity or impalpable state of pulverulent substances,” clearly shows the origin of the article. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
3. destruction of the style or stigma before the fertilisation of the ovary; 4. application to the stigma of imperfect or heterogeneous pollen or indifferent pulverulent matter; 5. defective conceptive power in the ovary. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
It was exhilarating, but one got home too soon, and so the way from Chelsea to Clapham was lengthened, first into a loop of side streets, and then when the first pulverulent snows told that Christmas was at hand, into a new loop down King’s. From Wordnik.com. [Love and Mr Lewisham] Reference
"As an outline sketch, I should say that, from the rock basin of the Erie-sea to the Ohio River, by the way of Fort Wayne, there is a ridge, of about 200 feet elevation, of rock formation, all new floetz, with a covering of from ten to seventy feet of pulverulent earth. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers] Reference
On shelves pulverulent, majestic stands 30. From Wordnik.com. [Poetical Works of Akenside] Reference
Sugar, gum, the decoctions of cochineal, gamboge, fustic, turmeric, sumach, catechu, and Brazil wood, all afford red pulverulent colours. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
Second, the land should be liberally enriched with humus by some of the means mentioned, if it is not already present in the soil in sufficient quantities, and the soil should be deeply and thoroughly plowed, rendering it light, porous, and pulverulent, that the air and moisture may easily penetrate to any desirable depth of it; and a proper quantity of either wood-ashes or lime, or both, mixed with common salt, should be harrowed into the surface before planting, or be applied on top of the hills immediately after planting. From Wordnik.com. [The $100 Prize Essay on the Cultivation of the Potato. Prize offered by W. T. Wylie and awarded to D. H. Compton. How to Cook the Potato, Furnished by Prof. Blot.] Reference
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