Word Meanings - AIGUILLETTE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A point or tag at the end of a fringe or lace; an aglet. 2. One of the ornamental tags, cords, or loops on some military and naval uniforms.

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• 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.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• 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
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• 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.
• FRINGE TREE
  A small oleaceous tree , of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.
• FRINGED
  Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear , a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.
• POINTLETED
  Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.
• POINT D'APPUI
  See APPUI
• ORNAMENTALLY
  By way of ornament.
• 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
• MILITARY
  1. Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown. Nor do I, as an enemy to peace,
• NAVALS
  Naval affairs.
• POINTINGSTOCK
  An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock. Shak.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• UNDERFRINGE
  A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.
• 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.
• 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.