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- English Word Poinciana Definition A prickly tropical shrub (Caesalpinia, formerly Poinciana, pulcherrima), with bipinnate leaves, and racemes of showy orange-red flowers with long crimson filaments.
- English Word Poind Definition To impound, as cattle.
- English Word Poind Definition To distrain.
- English Word Poinder Definition The keeper of a cattle pound; a pinder.
- English Word Poinder Definition One who distrains property.
- English Word Poinsettia Definition A Mexican shrub (Euphorbia pulcherrima) with very large and conspicuous vermilion bracts below the yellowish flowers.
- English Word Point Definition To appoint.
- English Word Point Definition That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin.
- English Word Point Definition An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer.
- English Word Point Definition Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line.
- English Word Point Definition The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick.
- English Word Point Definition An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced.
- English Word Point Definition An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge.
- English Word Point Definition A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion.
- English Word Point Definition Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints.
- English Word Point Definition That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc.
- English Word Point Definition Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote.
- English Word Point Definition A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio.
- English Word Point Definition A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time
- English Word Point Definition A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a tune.
- English Word Point Definition A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes.
- English Word Point Definition A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal.
- English Word Point Definition One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.
- English Word Point Definition One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point.
- English Word Point Definition A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef.
- English Word Point Definition A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress.
- English Word Point Definition Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below.
- English Word Point Definition A switch.
- English Word Point Definition An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
- English Word Point Definition A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.