Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A surgical instrument for throwing powder upon a diseased part.
- noun A small bellows, or compressible bulb, with a long and slender nozle, used for blowing insect-powder into crevices, or among aphides, etc., which infest green-house-plants; an insect-gun.
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Examples
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He next mounted the footboard, and, having peered in through the window of the sealed compartment, produced from his pocket a small insufflator or powder-blower, with which he blew a stream of impalpable smoke-like powder on to the edges of the middle window, bestowing the closest attention on the irregular dusty patches in which it settled, and even measuring one on the jamb of the window with a pocket-rule.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902
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He took from his bag a long, registering chemical thermometer and an insufflator or powder-blower.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902
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a small insufflator, or powder-blower, with which he blew a cloud of light yellow powder over the table around the remains of the clock.
John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902
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