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Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.

Pierced at the apex.

Punched; pierced with, or having, holes.

ce a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship.

That may be pierced.

Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge. Shak.

Ornamented with perforations or dots. [Obs.] "Gilt bowls pounced and pierced." Holinshed.

f the wall or trunk of the body; as, a pain in the side. One of the soldiers with a spear pierced his side. John xix. 34.

navigable water, and rising nearly or quite to the surface, by which boats are sometimes pierced and sunk.

Put upon a spit; pierced as if by a spit.

A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet.

To perforate by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. [Obs.] He pierced through his chafed chest With thrilling point of deadly iron brand. Spenser.

A projecting member resembling a tenon, but fitting into a mortise that is only sunk, not pierced through.

The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced. Bp. Hall.

To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.

rance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and serves as a gill.

The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation. Turret clock, a large clock adapted for an elevated position, as in the tower of a church. -- Turret head (Mach.), a vertical cylindrical revolving tool holder for bringing different tools into action successi…

Not gored or pierced.

long exercised in any service or art, particularly in war; one who has had. Ensigns that pierced the foe's remotest lines, The hardy veteran with tears resigns. Addison.

Being the seat of life; being that on which life depends; mortal. The dart flew on, and pierced a vital part. Pope.