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n the proportionate quantity of the primary colors employed. This method is also known as Pointillism (stippling).

Neglect of making appointment; failure to receive an appointment.

A detachable share at the extreme front end of the plow body.

A quilted military doublet or gambeson worn in the 14th and 15th centuries; also, a name for the doublet of the 16th and 17th centuries worn by civilians.

To appoint previously, or beforehand. Carlyle.

Previous appointment.

Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.

To appoint again.

The act of reappointing, or the state of being reappointed.

A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.

Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.

The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.

The finishing of joints along the center lines with a narrow ridge of putty or fine lime mortar.

See Point, n., 26.

A point giving advantage; vantage ground.

wer than usual, as a fess; also, having the ends of the wings turned downward towards the point of the shield.

to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration,…

taste or smell, is insoluble in water, but soluble in alcohol (especially at the boiling point), in strong acetic acid, and in ether. Watts.

On the point or verge of; going; in act of. Paul was now aboutto open his mouth. Acts xviii. 14.

One of the elements of reference by which a point, as of a curve, is referred to a system of fixed rectilineal coördinate axes.