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Not pointed or acute; blunt; -- applied esp. to angles greater than a right angle, or containing more than ninety degrees.

• Applicability
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• Blunting
  of Blunt
• Pointal
  The pistil of a plant.
• Right-about
  A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about.
• Right-lined
  Formed by right lines; rectilineal; as, a right-lined angle.
• POINTBLANK
  In a point-blank manner. To sin point-blank against God's word. Fuller.
• Applicable
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration.
• Bluntish
  Somewhat blunt.
• Point-blank
  The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed.
• Right-angled
  Containing a right angle or right angles; as, a right-angled triangle.
• Rightly
  Straightly; directly; in front.
• POINTDAPPUI
  See under Appui.
• Applicancy
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• Bluntly
  In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
• Point d'appui
  See under Appui.
• Righten
  To do justice to.
• Right-minded
  Having a right or honest mind.
• 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.
• Acute-angled
  Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.

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