Word Meanings - INSECTICIDE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An agent or preparation for destroying insects; an insect powder. -- In*sec"ti*ci`dal, a.

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• INSECTATOR
  A pursuer; a persecutor; a censorious critic. Bailey.
• POWDERY
  1. Easily crumbling to pieces; friable; loose; as, a powdery spar. 2. Sprinkled or covered with powder; dusty; as, the powdery bloom on plums. 3. Resembling powder; consisting of powder. "The powdery snow." Wordsworth.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• POWDERED
  See WALPOLE (more info) 1. Reduced to a powder; sprinkled with, or as with, powder. 2. Sprinkled with salt; salted; corned. Powdered beef, pickled meats. Harvey.
• AGENT
  Actingpatient, or sustaining, action. "The body agent." Bacon. (more info) Gr. aka to drive, Skr. aj.
• POWDER-POSTED
  Affected with dry rot; reduced to dust by rot. See Dry rot, under Dry.
• INSECTION
  A cutting in; incisure; incision.
• INSECTATION
  The act of pursuing; pursuit; harassment; persecution. Sir T. More.
• INSECTOLOGER
  An entomologist.
• INSECTIVORA
  1. An order of mammals which feed principally upon insects. Note: They are mostly of small size, and their molar teeth have sharp cusps. Most of the species burrow in the earth, and many of those of cold climates hibernate in winter. The order
• INSECTIVOROUS
  Feeding or subsisting on insects; carnivorous. The term is applied: to
• POWDERHORN
  A horn in which gunpowder is carried.
• AGENTSHIP
  Agency. Beau. & Fl.
• POWDERFLASK
  A flask in which gunpowder is carried, having a charging tube at the end.
• INSECTILE
  Pertaining to, or having the nature of, insects. Bacon.
• POWDERMILL
  A mill in which gunpowder is made.
• DESTROY
  destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
• INSECTARY
  A place for keeping living insects. -- In`sec*ta"ri*um, n. Etym:
• POWDERING
  a. & n. from Powder, v. t. Powdering tub. A tub or vessel in which meat is corned or salted. A heated tub in which an infected lecher was placed for cure. Shak.
• INSECTED
  Pertaining to, having the nature of, or resembling, an insect. Howell.
• INTERAGENT
  An intermediate agent.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• SELF-DESTROYER
  One who destroys himself; a suicide.
• TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
  A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
• BEPOWDER
  To sprinkle or cover with powder; to powder.
• GOA POWDER
  A bitter powder found in the interspaces of the wood of a Brazilian tree and used as a medicine. It is the material from which chrysarobin is obtained.
• ATLAS POWDER
  A blasting powder or dynamite composed of nitroglycerin, wood fiber, sodium nitrate, and magnesium carbonate.
• PIEPOUDRE; PIEPOWDER
  An ancient court of record in England, formerly incident to every fair and market, of which the steward of him who owned or had the toll was the judge. Blackstone.
• SMOKELESS POWDER
  A high-explosive gunpowder whose explosion produces little, if any, smoke.
• JAMES'S POWDER
  Antimonial powder, first prepared by Dr. James, ar English physician; -- called also fever powder.