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A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin. A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp. Rambler.

Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound.

To treat with acupuncture.

The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.

An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

Same as Electro-puncture.

See Acupuncture.

A form of acupuncture, followed by the rubbing of the part with a stimulating fluid.

A gall produced on rosebushes, esp. on the sweetbrier or eglantine, by a puncture from the ovipositor of a gallfly (Rhodites rosæ). It was once supposed to have medicinal properties.

Having two punctures, or spots.

To puncture, abrade, or sting with an organ (of some insects) used in taking food.

ting or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred with an inked roller.

See Electropuncture.

cts or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the wounds. The larvae live within the galls. Some galls are due to aphids, mites, etc. See Gallnut.

taining, within the sheathlike labium, six fine, sharp, needlelike organs with which they puncture the skin of man and animals to suck the blood. These bites, when numerous, cause, in many persons, considerable irritation and swelling, with some pain. The larvæ and pupæ, called wigglers, are aquatic. [Written also musq…

Resembling a pore, or small puncture.

That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer. Pins, wooden pricks, nails, sprigs of rosemary. Shak. It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. Acts ix. 5.

A puncturing, or pricking; a puncture.

The act or process of puncturing. See Acupuncture.

llied woodpecker (S. varius) of the Eastern United States. They are so named because they puncture the bark of trees and feed upon the sap. The name is loosely applied to other woodpeckers. -- Sap tube (Bot.), a vessel that conveys sap.