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Example sentences for "mealed"

Lexicographically close words:
meagre; meagrely; meagreness; meal; meale; meales; mealie; mealies; mealing; mealman
  1. Mealed powder, gunpowder pulverized by treating with spirits of wine.

  2. That corned or reduced into grains from the cakes, and distinguished from mealed powder, as employed in certain preparations.

  3. Quick match, threads of cotton or cotton wick soaked in a solution of gunpowder mixed with gum arabic and boiling water and afterwards strewed over with mealed powder.

  4. The process of separating the dust from gunpowder; also of separating mealed powder, from that which is not reduced.

  5. To prevent the mealed powder from falling out by carriage, a cap of paper or flannel, steeped in spirits of wine, is tied over it.

  6. A mixture of chlorate of potash and white sugar surrounds the tube and holds it in position; c is a primer filled with mealed powder in connection with the charge of the mine.

  7. Screwed into the piece a is the plug, or nipple d, with a hole through it from end to end, it is rammed full of mealed powder, and then a fine hole is drilled through the composition.

  8. All that is necessary to do would be to wet the magnesium tuft with resin dissolved in benzoline, and then, whilst still wet, dust it over with mealed gunpowder.

  9. A moderately brilliant effect may be got out of a tuft of zinc shavings well dusted with resin and mealed powder whilst made wet with benzoline.

  10. At the large end a cup is hollowed out and filled with mealed powder moistened with alcohol.

  11. The wafer is composed of a cap of cartridge-paper, enclosing a layer of fulminate of mercury combined with a small quantity of mealed powder.


  12. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mealed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.