Word Meanings - SPICULA - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A little spike; a spikelet. A pointed fleshy appendage.
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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. - 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 - LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - 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. - LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer. - SPIKE
A kind of flower cluster in which sessile flowers are arranged on an unbranched elongated axis. Spike grass , either of two tall perennial American grasses having broad leaves and large flattened spikelets. -- Spike rush. See under Rush. -- Spike - POINTLETED
Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow. - APPENDAGE
A subordinate or subsidiary part or organ; an external organ or limb, esp. of the articulates. Antennæ and other appendages used for feeling. Carpenter. Syn. -- Addition; adjunct; concomitant. (more info) 1. Something appended to, or accompanying, - SPIKEFISH
See SAILFISH - POINT D'APPUI
See APPUI - SPIKENARD
An aromatic plant. In the United States it is the Aralia racemosa, often called spignet, and used as a medicine. The spikenard of the ancients is the Nardostachys Jatamansi, a native of the Himalayan region. From its blackish roots a perfume for - SPIKED
Furnished or set with spikes, as corn; fastened with spikes; stopped with spikes. A youth, leaping over the spiked pales, . . . was caught by those spikes. Wiseman. - APPENDAGED
Furnished with, or supplemented by, an appendage. - SPIKEBILL
The hooded merganser. The marbled godwit . - 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. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson. - 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. - UNSPIKE
To remove a spike from, as from the vent of a cannon. - 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. - COUNTERPOINT
An opposite point Sir E. Sandys.