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To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed instrument. "I pierce . . . her tender side." Dryden.

That may be pierced.

Penetrated; entered; perforated.

A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.

One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically:

The earwig.

To pierce; to impierce. [Obs.] Spenser.

To pierce. [Obs.] Shak.

To pierce; to penetrate. [Obs.] Drayton.

Not capable of being pierced; impenetrable. [Obs.] Spenser.

To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.

An ornament of the cymatium of a classic cornice, sometimes pierced for the escape of water.

To pierce; to attack. [Obs.]

ith a metal head or point, and projecting from the prow of an ancient galley, in order to pierce the vessel of an enemy; a beakhead.

, v. t. Etym: [Cf. OIcel. berja to strike.] To pierce. [Obs.] Chaucer.

, as with sharp points pressed in; to mark by infixing points or spots here and there; to pierce. Truth shall retire Bestuck with slanderous darts. Milton.

ning an auger, gimlet, drill, or other instrument; to make a round hole in or through; to pierce; as, to bore a plank. I'll believe as soon this whole earth may be bored. Shak.

To destroy the arrangement of; to throw into disorder; to pierce; as, the cavalry were not able to break the British squares.

To spit; to pierce as with a spit. I'll broach the tadpole on my rapier's point. Shak.

together, as parts of dress or harness, by means of a strap passing through the frame and pierced by the tongue.