Word Meanings - IMPIERCE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton.
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- PIERCER
1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor. - PENETRATE
akin to penitus inward, inwardly, and perh. to pens with, in the 1. To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness. 2. To affect profoundly through the senses or feelings; to - PIERCEL
A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer. - PIERCE
LL. pertusiare for pertusare, fr. L. pertundere, pertusum, to beat, push, bore through; per through + tundere to beat: cf. OF. pertuisier to pierce, F. pertuis a hole. Cf. Contuse, Parch, 1. To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed - PIERCEABLE
That may be pierced. - PIERCED
Penetrated; entered; perforated. - INTERPENETRATE
To penetrate between or within; to penetrate mutually. It interpenetrates my granite mass. Shelley. - TRANSPIERCE
To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden. - IMPIERCE
To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton. - EMPIERCE
To pierce; to impierce. Spenser. - ENPIERCE
To pierce. Shak. - IMPIERCEABLE
Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable. Spenser. - EAR-PIERCER
The earwig.