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2,263 words match “POI”

POISURE n.
Weight. [Obs.]
POITREL n.
The breastplate of the armor of a horse. See Peytrel. [Obs.] Chaucer.
POIZE n.
See Poise. [Obs.]
AIR POISE n.
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ANTHROPOID a. 2 definitions
An anthropoid ape.
ANTHROPOIDAL a.
Anthropoid.
ANTHROPOIDEA n.
The suborder of primates which includes the monkeys, apes, and man.
APOISE adv.
Balanced.
APPOINT v. 7 definitions
To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29.
APPOINTABLE a.
Capable of being appointed or constituted.
APPOINTEE n. 2 definitions
A person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).
APPOINTER n.
One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
APPOINTIVE a.
Subject to appointment; as, an appointive office. [R.]
APPOINTMENT n. 8 definitions
The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.
APPOINTOR n.
The person who selects the appointee. See Appointee, 2.
AVOIRDUPOIS n. 3 definitions
Avoirdupois weight.
BLOWPOINT n.
A child's game. [Obs.]
BRISTLE-POINTED a.
Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.
COUNTERPOINT n. 5 definitions
An opposite point [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.
COUNTERPOISE v. 5 definitions
al weight; to equal in weght; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance. Weigts, counterpoising one another. Sir K. Digby.
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