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r beast, impaled upon it; as, a sword which is said to be "enfiled of" the thing which it pierces.

To gore; to pierce; to lacerate. [Obs.] Deadly engored of a great wild boar. Spenser.

o pass into the interior of; to pass within the outer cover or shell of; to penetrate; to pierce; as, to enter a house, a closet, a country, a door, etc.; the river enters the sea. That darksome cave they enter. Spenser. I, . . . with the multitude of my redeemed, Shall enter heaven, long absent. Milton.…

To pierce; to thrill. [Obs.] Sackville.

To transfix; to pierce. [Obs.] Sandys.

To pierce or make with a gimlet.

To pierce or wound, as with a horn; to penetrate with a pointed instrument, as a spear; to stab. The low stumps shall gore His daintly feet. Coleridge.

To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword. Milton. That through his thigh the mortal steel did gride. Spenser.

To seize or pierce with the points of the horns, as cattle in attacking enemies; to gore.

To pierce the hull of, as a ship, with a cannon ball.

To pierce with a pale; to put to death by fixing on a sharp stake. See Empale. Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison.

Incapable of being penetrated or pierced; not admitting the passage of other bodies; not to be entered; impervious; as, an impenetrable shield. Highest woods impenetrable To star or sunlight. Milton.

Impregnated; made prolific. The scorching ray Here pierceth not, impregnate with disease. Byron.

To pierce, as with a dart.

birth; a young babe; sometimes, a child several years of age. And tender cries of infants pierce the ear. C. Pitt.

Deepest within; farthest from the surface or external part; innermost. And pierce the inmost center of the earth. Shak. The silent, slow, consuming fires, Which on my inmost vitals prey. Addison.

tions of the sea. Lest evil tidings, with too rude irruption Hitting thy aged ear, should pierce too deep. Milton.

To pierce with a javelin. [R.] Tennyson.

joint or joints; to fit together; to prepare so as to fit together; as, to joint boards. Pierced through the yielding planks of jointed wood. Pope.

To pierce with a lance, or with any similar weapon. Seized the due victim, and with fury lanced Her back. Dryden.