Word Meanings - ACUMINATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.

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• TAPERED
  Lighted with a taper or tapers; as, a tapered choir. T. Warton.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• POINTLESS
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
• TAPERING
  Becoming gradually smaller toward one end. -- Ta"per*ing*ly, adv.
• TEETH
  pl. of Tooth.
• POINTLETED
  Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.
• ACUMINATE
  Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.
• POINT D'APPUI
  See APPUI
• TAPERNESS
  The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper. Shenstone.
• POINTING
  The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model. (more info) 1. The act of sharpening.
• POINT-BLANK
  1. The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. Jonson. With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory. With artillery, the point where the projectile
• POINTINGSTOCK
  An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock. Shak.
• POINTER
  One who, or that which, points. Specifically: The hand of a timepiece. One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen. pl.
• POINT APPLIQUE
  Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-made.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• BIACUMINATE
  Having points in two directions.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• INTERPOINT
  To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• PARKLEAVES
  A European species of Saint John's-wort; the tutsan. See Tutsan.
• APPOINTMENT
  The exercise of the power of designating (under a "power of appointment") a person to enjoy an estate or other specific property; also, the instrument by which the designation is made. 6. Equipment, furniture, as for a ship or an army; whatever
• EMBONPOINT
  Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.
• COUNTERPOINT
  An opposite point Sir E. Sandys.