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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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420 words match “POINTED”

POINTED a. 2 definitions

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

BRISTLE-POINTED a.

Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves.

DISAPPOINTED a. 2 definitions

Defeated of expectation or hope; balked; as, a disappointed person or hope.

NEEDLE-POINTED a.

Pointed as needles.

PROBE-POINTED a.

Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity; -- said of cutting instruments.

THREE-POINTED a.

Having three acute or setigerous points; tricuspidate.

Sharpened; sharp-pointed.

Tapering to a point; pointed; as, acuminate leaves, teeth, etc.

Sharp at the end; ending in a sharp point; pointed; -- opposed to blunt or obtuse; as, an acute angle; an acute leaf.

The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.

ACUTIFOLIATE a.

Having sharp-pointed leaves.

ADMINISTRATION n.

se. Administration with the will annexed, administration granted where the testator has appointed no executor, or where his appointment of an executor for any cause has failed, as by death, incompetency, refusal to act, etc.

One of a body of men appointed by the army, in Cromwell's time, to look after their interests; -- called also adjutators. Clarendon.

Orig., an officer appointed to look to the goodness of ale and beer; also, one of the officers chosen by the liverymen of London to inspect the measures used in public houses. But the office is a sinecure. [Also called aletaster.] [Eng.]

A long staff, pointed with iron, used in climbing the Alps. Cheever.

or three inches long, found in temperature seas; -- also called the lancelet. Its body is pointed at both ends. It is the lowest and most generalized of the vertebrates, having neither brain, skull, vertebræ, nor red blood. It forms the type of the group Acrania, Leptocardia, etc.

ngle or to angles; having an angle or angles; forming an angle or corner; sharp-cornered; pointed; as, an angular figure.

APPOINT v. 5 definitions

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.

A person appointed. The commission authorizes them to make appointments, and pay the appointees. Circular of Mass. Representatives (1768).