(verb) : pulvĕro, āre, and
* A. [id.].
* To scatter dust; to bestrew with dust, to dust: non (volo) hoc (vestibulum) pulveret (for pulveretur, should be full of dust, v. Gell. l. l.), Plaut. Fragm. ap. Gell. 18, 12, 4: se,Plin. 11, 33, 39, § 114.
* In partic., in vintagers' lang., to cover the vines with dust, by digging up the soil (as a protection against the sun and mist): vineas,Col. 11, 2, 60: vites,Pall. 4, 7, 1; 7, 1, 2: uvas,Plin. 17, 9, 5, § 49.
* To reduce to powder, to pulverize: herbas,Calp. Ecl. 5, 88.

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