Word Meanings - GOAPOWDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A bitter powder (also called araroba) found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree (Andira araroba) and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.

• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• Foundering
  of Founder
• Materialized
  of Materialize
• Powderhorn
  A horn in which gunpowder is carried.
• Bitterweed
  A species of Ambrosia (A. artemisiaefolia); Roman worm wood.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Founderous
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road.
• Materializing
  of Materialize
• Powdermill
  A mill in which gunpowder is made.
• Bitterwood
  A West Indian tree (Picraena excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.
• Bitterwort
  The yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea), which has a very bitter taste.
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.
• Foundershaft
  The first shaft sunk.
• Materialize
  To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
• Powder-posted
  Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
• Brazilian
  Of or pertaining to Brazil.

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