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In a punctual manner; promptly; exactly.

Punctuality; exactness.

To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning.

The act or art of punctuating or pointing a writing or discourse; the art or mode of dividing literary composition into sentences, and members of a sentence, by means of points, so as to elucidate the author's meaning.

Of or belonging to points of division; relating to punctuation. The punctuative intonation of feeble cadence. Rush.

One who punctuates, as in writing; specifically, a punctator.

A punctator.

Marked with small spots. The studs have their surface punctulated, as if set all over with other studs infinitely lesser. Woodward.

A point. Punctum cæcum. Etym: [L., blind point.] (Anat.) Same as Blind spot, under Blind. -- Punctum proximum, near point. See under Point. -- Punctum remotum, far point. See under Point. -- Punctum vegetationis Etym: [L., point of vegetation] (Bot.), the terminal cell of a stem, or of a leaf bud, from which new gro…

The act or process of puncturing. See Acupuncture.

The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed.

Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound.

A learned man; a teacher; esp., a Brahman versed in the Sanskrit language, and in the science, laws, and religion of the Hindoos; in Cashmere, any clerk or native official. [Written also pandit.] [India]

A short and fat woman; a squab. [Obs.]

A bedbug. [R or Obs.]

in sleigh drawn by one horse; originally, a rude oblong box on runners. [U.S.] Sledges or pungs, coarsely framed of split saplings, and surmounted with a large crockery crate. Judd. They did not take out the pungs to-day. E. E. Hale.

Pungency.

The quality or state of being pungent or piercing; keenness; sharpness; piquancy; as, the pungency of ammonia. "The pungency of menaces." Hammond.

ng a sharp sensation, as of the taste, smell, or feelings; pricking; biting; acrid; as, a pungent spice. Pungent radish biting infant's tongue. Shenstone. The pungent grains of titillating dust. Pope.

In a pungent manner; sharply.