Word Meanings - APICULATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Terminated abruptly by a small, distinct point, as a leaf.
- Point d'appui
See under Appui. - POINTDEVICEPOINTDEVISE
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. - Point-device
Alt. of Point-devise - POINTSWITCH
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. - Point-devise
Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. - Smallsword
A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century. - Distinction
A marking off by visible signs; separation into parts; division. - Terminated
of Terminate - Distinctive
Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar. - Pointingstock
An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock. - Terminating
of Terminate - Distinctively
With distinction; plainly. - Pointless
Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark.
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