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A miner's two-pointed pick.

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  • MINERALIZATION
    The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
  • 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.
  • MINERVA
    The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
  • 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.
  • MINERALOGICALLY
    According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
  • POINTLETED
    Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.
  • POINT D'APPUI
    See APPUI
  • MINERALOGY
    1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
  • MINERALIST
    One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
  • 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.
  • MINERALOGIZE
    To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.
  • 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
  • MINERALIZER
    An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
  • MINERALIZE
    1. To transform into a mineral. In these caverns the bones are not mineralized. Buckland. 2. To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
  • CROSS-EXAMINER
    One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
  • COVER-POINT
    The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
  • ILLUMINER
    One who, or that which, illuminates.
  • 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.
  • AETHIOPS MINERAL
    See MINERAL
  • PREAPPOINTMENT
    Previous appointment.
  • APPOINTER
    One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
  • CALCIMINER
    One who calcimines.
  • UNDERMINER
    One who undermines.

 

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