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1. poin'ancy. [ See Poignant .]
2. Sharpness; the power of stimulating the organs of taste.
3. Point; sharpness; keenness; the power of irritation; asperity; as the poignancy of wit or sarcasm.
4. Severity; acuteness.
The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief.
2. Sharp; stimulating the organs of taste; as poignant sauce.
3. Pointed; keen; bitter; irritating; satirical; as poignant wit.
4. Severe; piercing; very painful or acute; as poignant pain or grief.
2. Fig.: Pointed; keen; satirical.
In a poignant manner.
See Poecilitic.
An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound anaemia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle.
Alt. of Poikilothermic
Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.
1. The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.
2. One who distrains property.
Poinsot
Encyclopedia Britannica
POINSOT, Louis (1777-1859), mathematician, was born at Paris January 3, 1777. In 1794 he became a scholar at the Polytechnic School, which he left in 1796 to act as a civil engineer. In 1804 he was appointed professor of mathematics at the Lyceum, in 1809 professor of applied mathematics and in 1816 examiner at the Polytechnic School. On the death of Lagrange in 1813, Poinsot was elected to his place in the French Academy; and in 1840 he became a member of the superior council of public instruction. In 1846 he was made an officer of the legion of honour; and on the formation of the senate in 1852 he was chosen a member of that body. He died at Paris, December 5, 1859. Poinsot’s earliest work was his Dlêmens de Statique, in which he introduces the idea of statical couples and investigates their properties. In the Théorie Nouvelle de la Notation des Corps he treats the motion of a rigid body geometrically, and shows that the most general motion of such a body can be represented at any instant by a rotation about an axis combined with a translation parallel to this axis, and that any motion of a body of which one point is fixed may be produced by the rolling of a cone fixed in the body on a cone fixed in space. The previous treatment of the motion of a rigid body had in every case been purely analytical, and so gave no aid to the formation of a mental picture of the body’s motion; and the great value of this work lies in the fact that, as Poinsot himself says in the introduction, it enables us to represent to ourselves the motion of a rigid body as clearly as that of a moving point. Poinsot also contributed a number of papers on pure and applied mathematics to Liouville ’ s Journal and to the Journal of the Polytechnic School.
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1. The sharp end of any instrument or body; as the point of a knife, of a sword or of a thorn.
3. A small cape, headland or promontory; a tract of land extending into the sea, a lake or river, beyond the line of the shore, and becoming narrow at the end; as point Judith; Montauk point It is smaller than a cape.
4. The sting of an epigram; a lively turn of thought or expression that strikes with force and agreeable surprise.
5. With periods, points and tropes he slurs his crimes.
6. An indivisible part of time or space. We say, a point of time, a point of space.
7. A small space; as a small point of land.
9. Place near, next or contiguous to; verge; eve. He is on the point of departure, or at the point of death.
10. Exact place. He left off at the point where he began.
11. Degree; state of elevation, depression or extension; as, he has reached an extraordinary point of excellence. He has fallen to the lowest point of degradation.
12. A character used to mark the divisions of writing, or the pauses to be observed in reading or speaking; as the comma, semi-colon, colon and period. The period is called a full stop, as it marks the close of a sentence.
14. In geometry, that which has neither parts nor magnitude.
15. A point is that which has position but not magnitude.
16. A point is a limit terminating a line.
17. In music, mark or note anciently used to distinguish tones or sounds. Hence, simple counterpoint is when a note of the lower part answers exactly to that of the upper, and figurative counterpoint, is when a note is syncopated and one of the parts makes several notes or inflections of the voice while the other holds on one.
18. In modern music, a dot placed by a note to raise its value or prolong its time by one half, so as to make a semibreve equal to three minims; a minim equal to three quavers, etc.
19. In astronomy, a division of the great circles of the horizon, and of the mariner's compass. The four cardinal points, are the east, west, north and south. On the space between two of these points, making a quadrant or quarter of a circle, the compass is marked with subordinate divisions, the whole number being thirty two points.
20. In astronomy, a certain place marked in the heavens, or distinguished for its importance in astronomical calculations. The zenith and nadir are called vertical points; the nodes are the points where the orbits of the planets intersect the plane of the ecliptic; the place where the equator and ecliptic intersect are called equinoctial points; the points of the ecliptic at which the departure of the sun from the equator, north and south, is terminated, are called solstitial points.
21. In perspective, a certain pole or place with regard to the perspective plane.
22. In manufactories, a lace or work wrought by the needle; as point le Venice, point de Genoa, etc. Sometimes the word is used for lace woven with bobbins. point devise is used for needle work, or for nice work.
23. The place to which any thing is directed, or the direction in which an object is presented to the eye. We say, in this point of view, an object appears to advantage. In this or that point of view, the evidence is important.
24. Particular; single thing or subject. In what point do we differ? All points of controversy between the parties are adjusted. We say, in point of antiquity, in point of fact, in point of excellence. The letter in every point is admirable. The treaty is executed in every point
25. Aim; purpose; thing to be reached or accomplished; as, to gain one's point
26. The act of aiming or striking.
27. What a point your falcon made.
28. A single position; a single assertion; a single part of a complicated question or of a whole.
29. These arguments are not sufficient to prove the point
30. Strange point and new!
31. Doctrine which we would know whence learned.
32. A note or tune.
33. Turning your tongue divine
34. To a loud trumpet, and a point of war.
35. In heraldry, points are the several different parts of the escutcheon, denoting the local positions of figures.
36. In electricity, the acute termination of a body which facilitates the passage of the fluid to or from the body.
37. In gunnery, point-blank denotes the shot of a gun leveled horizontally. The point-blank range is the extent of the apparent right line of a ball discharged. In shooting point-blank, the ball is supposed to move directly to the object, without a curve. Hence adverbially, the word is equivalent to directly.
38. In marine language, points are flat pieces of braided cordage, tapering from the middle towards each end; used in reefing the courses and top-sails of square-rigged vessels.
39. POINT de vise, [Fr.] exactly in the point of view.
40. Vowel-points, in the Hebrew and other eastern languages, are certain marks placed above or below the consonants, or attached to them, as in the Ethiopic, representing the vocal sounds or vowels, which precede or follow the articulations.
41. The point the subject; the main question; the precise thing to be considered, determined or accomplished. This argument may be true, but it is not to the point
1. To direct the finger for designating an object, and exciting attention to it; with at.
2. Now must the world point at poor Catherine.
4. To indicate, as dogs do to sportsmen.
5. He treads with caution, and he points with fear.
6. To show distinctly by any means.
7. To point at what time the balance of power was most equally held between the lords and commons at Rome, would perhaps admit a controversy.
8. To fill the joints or crevices of a wall with mortar.
9. In the rigging of a ship, to taper the end of a rope or splice, and work over the reduced part a small close netting, with an even number of knittles twisted from the same.
10. To point at, to treat with scorn or contempt by pointing or directing attention to.
1. To sharpen; to cut, forge, grind or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart or a pin; also, to taper, as a rope.
2. To direct towards an object or place, to show its position, or excite attention to it; as, to point the finger at an object; to point the finger of scorn at one.
3. To direct the eye or notice.
4. Whosoever should be guided through his battles by Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them, would see nothing but subjects of surprise.
5. To aim; to direct towards an object; as, to point a musket at a wolf; to point a cannon at a gate.
6. To mark with characters for the purpose of distinguishing the members of a sentence, and designating the pauses; as, to point a written composition.
7. To mark with vowel-points.
8. To appoint. [Not in use.]
9. To fill the joints with mortar, and smooth them with the point of a trowel; as, to point a wall.
10. To point out, to show by the finger or by other means.
1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin.
2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer.
3. Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line.
5. An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced.
6. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge.
7. A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion.
8. Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints.
9. That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc.
10. Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote.
13. A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a tune.
14. A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes.
15. A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal.
16. One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.
17. One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point.
19. A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress.
20. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below.
21. A switch.
23. A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.
24. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer.
25. A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type.
27. One of the spaces on a backgammon board.
29. To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral.
30. To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.
31. Hence, to direct the attention or notice of.
32. To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point a composition.
33. To mark (as Hebrew) with vowel points.
34. To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the error was pointed out.
35. To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.
36. To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
37. To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
1. To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at.
2. To indicate the presence of game by fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
3. To approximate to the surface; to head; -- said of an abscess.
Point d'appui
Webster's Dictionary 1913
See under Appui.
Point de galle
Encyclopedia Britannica
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 19, p. 275
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1. Directed in a line toward the object aimed at; aimed directly toward the mark.
2. Hence, direct; plain; unqualified; -- said of language; as, a point-blank assertion.
In a point-blank manner.
2. With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.
3. With artillery, the point where the projectile first strikes the horizontal plane on which the gun stands, the axis of the piece being horizontal.
Alt. of Point-devise
Alt. of Point-devise
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28 KJV and 46 BSB verses contain “poi” — showing the first 20. Show all 68 verses (searchable)
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?
“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”
And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:
And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar-enan to Shepham:
And your eastern border will run straight from Hazar-enan to Shepham,
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,
They shall be burnt with hunger, and devoured with burning heat, and with bitter destruction: I will also send the teeth of beasts upon them, with the poison of serpents of the dust.
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.
And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.
But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Beth-zur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
After them the Tekoites repaired another piece, over against the great tower that lieth out, even unto the wall of Ophel.
And next to them, the Tekoites repaired another section, from a point opposite the great tower that juts out to the wall of Ophel.
Trouble and anguish shall make him afraid; they shall prevail against him, as a king ready to the battle.
It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
It is drawn out of his back, the gleaming point from his liver. Terrors come over him.