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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.

used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets [i. e., tablets] . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.

Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.

See Pointal.

One who, or that which, points. Specifically:

The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.

An object of ridicule or scorn; a laughingstock. Shak.

Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark.

Without point.

Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.

A graving tool. Knight.

A man who has charge of railroad points or switches. [Eng.]

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out. When he appointed the foundations of the earth. Prov. viii. 29.

Capable of being appointed or constituted.