Having the appearance of powder, or of a surface covered with fine powder: as, a powdered glaze in porcelain; in zoology, marked as if powdered or dusted over: as, the powdered quaker, Tæniocampa gracilis, a moth; the powdered wainscot, Simyra venosa, a moth.Ornamented with a small pattern, as a flower or the like, continually repeated.In heraldry, same as semé.Burnt in smoking, as a herring.