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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.

ould be common or public, as highways, rivers, harbors, forts, etc. [Written also pourpresture.]

finding of a square having the same area as some given curvilinear figure; as, the quadrature of a circle; the operation of finding an expression for the area of a figure bounded wholly or in part by a curved line, as by a curve, two ordinates, and the axis of abscissas.

A discharge; an issue. [Obs.] To cleanse the quitture from thy wound. Chapman.

ty with violence. [Obs.] That 'gainst a rock, or flat, her keel did dash With headlong rapture. Chapman.

An enthusiast. [Obs.] J. Spencer.

To put, or be put, in a state of rapture. [R.]

Ecstatic; transporting; ravishing; feeling, expressing, or manifesting rapture; as, rapturous joy, pleasure, or delight; rapturous applause.

In a rapturous manner.

To turn again.

The act of retaking or recovering by capture; especially, the retaking of a prize or goods from a captor.

The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort. [Obs.] Shak.

Redemption. [Obs.]

A second breaking (as of a badly set bone) by the surgeon.

A remission or surrender, -- remittitur damnut being a remission of excess of damages.

Food; entertainment. [Obs.] Food for his rage, repasture for his den. Shak.

The act of weaving or forming again. Carlyle.