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To tear; to lacerate; to pierce or stab. De Quincey.

Piercing; seeming to pierce or stab; as, lancinating pains (i.e., severe, darting pains).

To strike with, or as with, a lance; to pierce. [Obs.] Launch your hearts with lamentable wounds. Spenser.

A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son.

rative art, a small object carved in wood, ivory, bone, or horn, or wrought in metal, and pierced with holes for cords by which it is connected, for convenience, with the inro, the smoking pouch (tabako-ire), and similar objects carried in the girdle. It is now much used on purses sold in Europe and America.…

, metal work, etc.) as to show openings through its substance; work that is perforated or pierced.

e other animals deposit their eggs. Some ichneumon files have a long ovipositor fitted to pierce the eggs or larvæ of other insects, in order to lay their own eggs within the same.

To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel. Shak.

the dark. Shak. From her cabined loophole peep. Milton. Peep sight, an adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech.

An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.

The quality of being penetrable; susceptibility of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Cheyne.

Capable of being penetrated, entered, or pierced. Used also figuratively. And pierce his only penetrable part. Dryden. I am not made of stones, But penetrable to your kind entreats. Shak. -- Pen"e*tra*ble*ness, n. -- Pen"e*tra*bly, adv.

Having power to enter or pierce; penetrating; sharp; subtile; as, penetrant cold. "Penetrant and powerful arguments." Boyle.

To enter into; to make way into the interior of; to effect an entrance into; to pierce; as, light penetrates darkness.

To pierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of. Bacon.

Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.

Having power to perforate or pierce.

Pierced at the apex.

Punched; pierced with, or having, holes.