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A national food of the Hawaiians, made by baking and pounding the kalo (or taro) root, and reducing it to a thin paste, which is allowed to ferment.

The frescoed porch or gallery in Athens where Zeno taught. R. Browning.

The quality or state of being poignant; as, the poignancy of satire; the poignancy of grief. Swift.

Pricking; piercing; sharp; pungent. "His poignant spear." Spenser. "Poynaunt sauce." Chaucer.

In a poignant manner.

See Poecilitic.

An irregular form of corpuscle found in the blood in cases of profound anæmia, probably a degenerated red blood corpuscle.

Having a varying body temperature. See Homoiothermal.

Poikilothermal.

A prickly tropical shrub (Cæsalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.

To impound, as cattle. [Obs. or Scot.] Flavel.

The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder. [Obs. or Scot.] T. Adams.

A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.

To appoint. [Obs.] Spenser.

An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.

Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-made.

See under Appui.

A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.

With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.

Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow.