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abaft
abased
abatis
aberration
about
abreast
absciss
abyssinians
acacia
accept
accident
accidental
ace
acerous
acicular
acme
acorn
aculeate
acumen
acuminate
acuminated
acumination
acute
adansonia
adjudication
adonists
adoption
advocate
agitator
ahead
aiglet
aim
aimed
aiming
albatros
ale-taster
allot
allowance
allowed
almucantar
aloof
altitude
ammonium
amplitude
anacoenosis
analemma
anamorphosis
angle
angular
ansers
apeak
apex
aphelion
apogee
apothecary
appertain
applause
appoint
appointable
appointed
appointee
appointer
appointing
appointment
appraise
appraiser
apprize
apprizement
approach
apsis
arbiter
arc
archchancellor
archdeacon
arista
arrest
arrive
arrow
arrow-head
article
as
ascending
ascension
ascension-day
ashamed
asperse
aspiring
assay-master
assessor
assign
assignable
assignation
assigned
assignee
assigner
assigning
assignment
astrolabe
at
attempt
attempting
attenuated
attorney
attraction
audience
audit
auditor
avocado
award
backgammon
backwards
baffling
bailif
bailiwick
balk
balked
barb
barbed
bastion
bayonet
beacon
beak
beaked
beakiron
beam
bean
beard
before
belated
belone
bend
benedictines
bestick
bestuck
bevel
bickern
bifarious
bight
bilk
bilked
bisect
bishop
bit
blade
blank
blast
blockade
blow-point
blunt
bluntness
boat-hook
bodkin
bolt
bond
boops
bore
bound
bound-bailiff
boundary
bow
bownet
box
brigade-major
bring
bruise
brush
bulwark
bumbailiff
bunt
buoy
business
butt
cacao
caliber
calk
calked
calker
calking
call
called
caltrop
can
candidate
canine
cape
capellet
caravansary
card
cardinal
carry
catechist
catenary
cathetus
cats-eye
center
centered
centering
centripetal
centumvir
certificate
chancellor
change
chantry
chart
chestnut-tree
chevalier
chin
chinse
church-warden
cicatricle
cimiter
cinque-ports
circle
circulate
circulation
cite
civil
clarencieux
clause
clear
clef
cleromancy
clinch
close
coadjutor
cock
coin
coincide
coincidence
coincident
coinciding
collate
collector
colon
colure
comma
commination
commission
commissionary
committee
comparison
compass
conatus
concede
concenter
concentered
concentrate
concentrated
concentrating
concentration
conception
concession
conclusively
concourse
concur
conder
conduct
cone
confirmation
conge
congregation
conic
conical
conservator
constable
constituent
constitute
constituted
constituter
constituting
constitution
consummate
contact
contest
continuation
contradict
contraindicate
contrapuntist
controller
controvertible
converge
convergence
convergency
convergent
converging
convert
copatan
copped
coppled
corner
corradiation
coscinomancy
council
counselor
counterguard
counterpane
counterpoint
course
crafty
crag
cragged
craggedness
craggy
crane
crescent
crisis
criticalness
crown
crows-foot
cucullate
cucullated
culmiferous
culminate
culmination
cultrated
curator
curtate
curve
cusp
cuspated
cuspidal
cuspidate
cuspidated
cut
cyme
dart
darted
decemdentate
decree
decreed
decreeing
decretal
decussation
dedicate
defeat
defeating
defiance
definitively
delegate
delegated
delegating
delegation
delude
demur
demurrage
demurrer
demurring
dent
dentated
dentato-sinuate
denticle
denticulation
deputation
depute
deputed
deputing
deputize
deputy
deputy-collector
deputy-marshall
deputy-post-master
derange
descant
descension
designate
designated
designating
designation
destinate
destination
destine
destined
destining
destiny
determine
device
dexter
diacritical
dialysis
dibble
difference
dig
dipping-needle
direct
directed
directing
direction
director
disappoint
disappointed
disappointing
disappointment
discharge
disciplinary
discomfiture
discuss
discussion
disinclination
dismemberment
dispersion
disposal
disputable
dissatisfaction
distant
distichous
distinguish
distract
diverge
divergent
diversion
diversly
divert
dodge
dogtooth
dot
dotted
downright
dracunculus
dragons-head
drill
drive
eagerness
east
eastward
eccentrical
echinated
echinite
eddy
edge
edgewise
elector
elegy
embayed
embrasure
end
engage
enormous
enrich
enterprise
enumeration
epicycloid
epigram
epigrammatical
epigraph
epoch
equator
equidistant
equinoctial
equinox
era
essential
essoin
establish
euroclydon
evaporate
ever
exact
example
exception
excess
excursion
executor
executrix
exercise
exorbitant
expect
expectation
exposure
extreme
extremely
extremity
eyetooth
facial
fail
fall
fallacious
fang
fanged
far
farce
fascicled
fastigiated
fatal
fate
fathom
female-flower
fescue
fesse-point
fid
figurate
figurative
finance
finesse
finger
fix
flat
flatness
fluxion
fly
focal
focus
foil
foiling
font
fool
fooled
fooling
foreappoint
foreappointment
forecast
foreland
forelock
foreordain
foreordination
forester
fork
forked
forkhead
forky
forlorn
fraction
fraise
from
front
frostnail
frustrate
frustrated
frustrating
frustration
full
gang
gap
gauntlet
gazetteer
genesis
geomancer
geomancy
get
gimblet
gist
gnat
go
goad
goal
going
gondola
gore
gored
govern
government
gravitate
ground
guardian
gulf
gunner
gunshot
habit
hackly
halberd
hand
hang
hanger
hardnibbed
harmonize
haul
head
headland
heaven-directed
hedgehog
hereafter
herisson
herse
highland
hinge
hit
hither
holly
home
horn
horoscope
horrent
hourhand
house
hurricane
hypothesis
ichneumon
illude
illusion
image
imaginable
impatiently
impervious
inceptive
inch
inconclusive
indent
indented
index
indicant
indicate
indicated
indicating
indication
indicator
indiction
indifference
indigitate
indigitation
indivisible
infinite
inflection
innuendo
instant
instantaneously
institute
instituted
institution
intercept
interplead
interpoint
interpunction
intersect
intersection
interval
intervene
intervening
intimate
invention
irrefragably
issue
javelin
jehovist
jilt
job
jot
junction
juncture
junk
jut
keen
knotty
labor
lance
lancet
land
landlocked
late
lateness
latitude
lee-side
level
leveled
lie
light
light-house
line
linstock
locate
long
longitude
look
love-day
lunistice
lurch
magnet
major
malacopterygeous
mark
market
marshal
masoretic
material
mean
measles
medium
meet
mercury
meridian
merit
middle
miniature
minister
minute-hand
minutely
mispoint
miss
mission
mock
mockery
monad
monitory
monsoon
montanist
mortification
mucronated
muricated
nadir
nail
navel
needle
nettle-tree
nib
nibbed
nice
nick
node
nominate
nomination
non-appointment
nonagesimal
north
northeast
northerly
northern
northward
northwest
oblike
obtuse
obtusely
obtuseness
offend
officer
official
once
onward
open
ord
ordain
ordainabale
ordained
ordainer
ordaining
order
ordinability
ordinable
ordinance
ordinary
ordinate
ordination
organization
organize
orgues
orthodromics
orthographical
orthography
ortive
osculatory
overbear
overcarry
packer
pale
papillose
papulose
paragraph
parallax
parallel
parley
particular
passage
pause
peak
peck
pecked
pecking
peg
pen
pencil
pendant
pendulum
penetrate
perambulate
perforate
perigeum
period
periscian
peroration
perpendicular
persist
pertusion
physical
pick
pickax
pickedness
picket
pico
pierce
piercing
pike
piked
pile
pin
pindust
pinnacle
pique
pistil
pitch
place
plain
plant
pleadings
pleasantry
plug
poignancy
poignant
poignantly
point
pointal
pointed
pointedly
pointedness
pointel
pointer
pointing
pointing-stock
pointless
polar
polarity
pole
pole-axe
polypody
poniard
portcullis
positive
precession
precise
predestinate
predestinating
predestination
prefix
prefixed
prefixing
prejudication
preordain
prepare
prepositor
prerogative
prerogative-court
present
president
pretor
prick
pricked
pricker
pricking
prickle
prickly
prickpunch
prime
priming-wire
principal
procede
proclamation
proconsul
projection
promontory
prong
prospective
provisor
provost
prow
prudentials
punch
punctated
punctiform
punctilio
punctiliousness
puncto
punctual
punctually
punctuate
punctuated
punctuating
punctuation
puncture
punctured
puncturing
pungency
pungent
pursuant
push
put
puzzle
pyramid
quadrant
quadrature
quadrivial
quarter
question
quibble
quirk
quodlibet
r
radiant
radiate
radiating
ragged
raise
random
random-shot
range
ranger
ray
reach
ready
reappoint
reappointment
recapitulate
recapitulation
receiver
recess
reclinate
referee
reference
referred
refuge
regality
regard
regent
remark
rendezvous
resist
revolution
rhumb
rhumb-line
right
ripe
rivet
rompee
rotation
rough
rough-shod
rowel
rugged
runcinate
sabbath
sabre
salient
sanctify
scabrous
scanty
scarify
scholastical
school
scorpion
scragginess
scraggy
scratch
scratched
scratching
scrupulosity
sea-needle
sealer
season
secant
seghol
semicolon
sentence
serrated
setting
settle
sham
sharp
sharpen
sharply
sharpness
sherif
shoe
short
show
side
sideral
sidereal
sign
silentiary
similar
simile
simplify
sketch
slur
smooth
snagged
snaggy
snout
soften
solstice
solution
somewhat
south
southeast
southerly
southwest
southwesterly
space
spear
specification
sphere
spicular
spiculate
spike
spiky
spindle
spire
spit
spot
sprig
sprig-crystal
spunge
spur
stab
stabbed
stabbing
stake
staking
stand
stanza
staple
star-fish
state
station
station-bill
statute-merchant
stave
stead
steadiness
steam
steddiness
steel
steeled
steeling
steely
steeple
stern-board
stern-chase
steward
stick
stickler
stiletto
sting
stipendiary
stop
straight
strength
strike
style
submission
subtangent
suffer
summit
supersede
superstition
suspension
swim
symbolical
synneurosis
tactics
tag
tantalized
taper
tapering
temporary
term
terminate
testamentary
testimony
thanksgiving
that
themselves
thinness
third
thither
thorn
thorny
three-pointed
threshhold
thrill
thrust
tickle
tide
tilt
tip
to
tooth
toothed
top
tor
touch
transfix
transfixing
traverse
traverse-board
treat
tricuspidate
trisulc
tropic
tubercle
tung
turn
tusk
ultimate
umbilical
undisappointed
unexceptionably
unpointed
unpunctuated
until
unworthy
up
utmost
valet
variation
versatile
vertex
vertical
verticity
vessel
vice-admiral
view
visual
wait
walker
wander
wandering
ward
warrant
wave
wave-offering
weariness
wearisome
weather
weeding-chisel
west
whereness
whiffle
whin-stone
whit
whither
wind
windward
with
witticism
woodman
world
wrangle
year
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1828 Definition

POINT, n. [L. punctum, from pungo, to prick, properly to thrust, pret. pepugi, showing that n is not radical.]

1. The sharp end of any instrument or body; as the point of a knife, of a sword or of a thorn.

2. A string with a tag; as a silken point.

3. A small cape, headland or promontory; a tract of land extending into the sea, a lake or river, beyond the line of the shore, and becoming narrow at the end; as point Judith; Montauk point. It is smaller than a cape.

4. The sting of an epigram; a lively turn of thought or expression that strikes with force and agreeable surprise.

With periods, points and tropes he slurs his crimes.

5. An indivisible part of time or space. We say, a point of time, a point of space.

6. A small space; as a small point of land.

7. Punctilio; nicety; exactness of ceremony; as points of precedence.

8. Place near, next or contiguous to; verge; eve. He is on the point of departure, or at the point of death.

9. Exact place. He left off at the point where he began.

10. Degree; state of elevation, depression or extension; as, he has reached an extraordinary point of excellence. He has fallen to the lowest point of degradation.

11. A character used to mark the divisions of writing, or the pauses to be observed in reading or speaking; as the comma, semi-colon, colon and period. The period is called a full stop,as it marks the close of a sentence.

12. A spot; a part of a surface divided by spots or lines; as the ace or sise point.

13. In geometry, that which has neither parts nor magnitude.

A point is that which has position but not magnitude.

A point is a limit terminating a line.

14. In music, mark or note anciently used to distinguish tones or sounds. Hence, simple counterpoint is when a note of the lower part answers exactly to that of the upper, and figurative counterpoint, is when a note is syncopated and one of the parts makes several notes or inflections of the voice while the other holds on one.

15. In modern music, a dot placed by a note to raise its value or prolong its time by one half, so as to make a semibreve equal to three minims; a minim equal to three quavers, &c.

16. In astronomy, a division of the great circles of the horizon, and of the mariner's compass. The four cardinal points, are the east, west, north and south. On the space between two of these points, making a quadrant or quarter of a circle, the compass is marked with subordinate divisions, the whole number being thirty two points.

17. In astronomy, a certain place marked in the heavens, or distinguished for its importance in astronomical calculations. The zenith and nadir are called vertical points; the nodes are the points where the orbits of the planets intersect the plane of the ecliptic; the place where the equator and ecliptic intersect are called equinoctial points; the points of the ecliptic at which the departure of the sun from the equator, north and south, is terminated, are called solstitial points.

18. In perspective, a certain pole or place with regard to the perspective plane.

19. In manufactories, a lace or work wrought by the needle; as point le Venice, point de Genoa, &c. Sometimes the word is used for lace woven with bobbins. Point devise is used for needle work, or for nice work.

20. The place to which any thing is directed, or the direction in which an object is presented to the eye. We say, in this point of view, an object appears to advantage. In this or that point of view, the evidence is important.

21. Particular; single thing or subject. In what point do we differ? All points of controversy between the parties are adjusted. We say, in point of antiquity, in point of fact, in point of excellence. The letter in every point is admirable. The treaty is executed in every point.

22. Aim; purpose; thing to be reached or accomplished; as, to gain one's point.

23. The act of aiming or striking.

What a point your falcon made.

24. A single position; a single assertion; a single part of a complicated question or of a whole.

These arguments are not sufficient to prove the point.

Strange point and new!

Doctrine which we would know whence learned.

25. A note or tune.

Turning your tongue divine

To a loud trumpet, and a point of war.

26. In heraldry, points are the several different parts of the escutcheon, denoting the local positions of figures.

27. In electricity, the acute termination of a body which facilitates the passage of the fluid to or from the body.

28. In gunnery, point-blank denotes the shot of a gun leveled horizontally. The point-blank range is the extent of the apparent right line of a ball discharged. In shooting point-blank,the ball is supposed to move directly to the object, without a curve. Hence adverbially, the word is equivalent to directly.

29. In marine language, points are flat pieces of braided cordage, tapering from the middle towards each end; used in reefing the courses and top-sails of square-rigged vessels.

Point de vise, [Fr.] exactly in the point of view.

Vowel-points, in the Hebrew and other eastern languages, are certain marks placed above or below the consonants, or attached to them, as in the Ethiopic, representing the vocal sounds or vowels, which precede or follow the articulations.

The point, the subject; the main question; the precise thing to be considered, determined or accomplished. This argument may be true, but it is not to the point.

POINT, v.t. To sharpen; to cut, forge, grind or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart or a pin; also, to taper, as a rope.

1. To direct towards an object or place, to show its position, or excite attention to it; as, to point the finger at an object; to point the finger of scorn at one.

2. To direct the eye or notice.

Whosoever should be guided through his battles by Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them, would see nothing but subjects of surprise.

3. To aim; to direct towards an object; as, to point a musket at a wolf; to point a cannon at a gate.

4. To mark with characters for the purpose of distinguishing the members of a sentence, and designating the pauses; as, to point a written composition.

5. To mark with vowel-points.

6. To appoint. [Not in use.]

7. To fill the joints with mortar, and smooth them with the point of a trowel; as, to point a wall.

To point out, to show by the finger or by other means.

To point a sail, to affix points through the eyelet-holes of the reefs.

POINT, v.i. To direct the finger for designating an object, and exciting attention to it; with at.

Now must the world point at poor Catherine.

Point at the tatter'd coat and ragged shoe.

1. To indicate, as dogs do to sportsmen.

He treads with caution, and he points with fear.

2. To show distinctly by any means.

To point at what time the balance of power was most equally held between the lords and commons at Rome, would perhaps admit a controversy.

3. To fill the joints or crevices of a wall with mortar.

4. In the rigging of a ship, to taper the end of a rope or splice, and work over the reduced part a small close netting, with an even number of knittles twisted from the same.

To point at, to treat with scorn or contempt by pointing or directing attention to.

1913 Definition
Point (point)
v. t. *** i.(point)
Point
  1. To appoint.
    [Obs.] Spenser.
  2. That which pricks or pierces] the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick.
  6. 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.
  7. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge.

    When time's first point begun
    Made he all souls.
    Sir J. Davies.

  8. 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.

    And there a point, for ended is my tale. Chaucer.

    Commas and points they set exactly right. Pope.

  9. 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.
    "A point of precedence." Selden. "Creeping on from point to point." Tennyson.

    A lord full fat and in good point. Chaucer.

  10. 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.

    He told him, point for point, in short and plain. Chaucer.

    In point of religion and in point of honor. Bacon.

    Shalt thou dispute
    With Him the points of liberty ?
    Milton.

  11. 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.
    "Here lies the point." Shak.

    They will hardly prove his point. Arbuthnot.

  12. A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio.

    This fellow doth not stand upon points. Shak.

    [He] cared not for God or man a point. Spenser.

  13. A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time
    ; as: (a) (Anc. Mus.)
  14. 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.
  15. One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.
  16. 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.
    (b)
  17. A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress.
    Sir W. Scott.
  18. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below.
  19. A switch.
    [Eng.]
  20. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer.
    [Cant, U. S.]
  21. A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman.
  22. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer.
  23. A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type.
  24. A tyne or snag of an antler.
  25. One of the spaces on a backgammon board.
  26. A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point.

    * The word point is a general term, much used in the sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics, perspective, and physics, but generally either in the geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon point, dry point, freezing point, melting point, vanishing point, etc.

    At all points, in every particular, completely; perfectly. Shak. -- At point, In point, At, In, or On, the point, as near as can be; on the verge; about (see About, prep., 6); as, at the point of death; he was on the point of speaking. "In point to fall down." Chaucer. "Caius Sidius Geta, at point to have been taken, recovered himself so valiantly as brought day on his side." Milton. -- Dead point. (Mach.) Same as Dead center, under Dead. -- Far point (Med.), in ophthalmology, the farthest point at which objects are seen distinctly. In normal eyes the nearest point at which objects are seen distinctly; either with the two eyes together (binocular near point), or with each eye separately (monocular near point). -- Nine points of the law, all but the tenth point; the greater weight of authority. -- On the point. See At point, above. -- Point lace, lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from that made on the pillow. -- Point net, a machine-made lace imitating a kind of Brussels lace (Brussels ground). -- Point of concurrence (Geom.), a point common to two lines, but not a point of tangency or of intersection, as, for instance, that in which a cycloid meets its base. -- Point of contrary flexure, a point at which a curve changes its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and concavity change sides. -- Point of order, in parliamentary practice, a question of order or propriety under the rules. -- Point of sight (Persp.), in a perspective drawing, the point assumed as that occupied by the eye of the spectator. -- Point of view, the relative position from which anything is seen or any subject is considered. -- Points of the compass (Naut.), the thirty-two points of division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the directions of east, west, north, and south, are called cardinal points, and the rest are named from their respective directions, as N. by E., N. N. E., N. E. by N., N. E., etc. See Illust. under Compass. -- Point paper, paper pricked through so as to form a stencil for transferring a design. -- Point system of type. See under Type. -- Singular point (Geom.), a point of a curve which possesses some property not possessed by points in general on the curve, as a cusp, a point of inflection, a node, etc. -- To carry one's point, to accomplish one's object, as in a controversy. -- To make a point of, to attach special importance to. -- To make, or gain, a point, accomplish that which was proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or position. -- To mark, or score, a point, as in billiards, cricket, etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run, etc. -- To strain a point, to go beyond the proper limit or rule; to stretch one's authority or conscience. -- Vowel point, in Hebrew, and certain other Eastern and ancient languages, a mark placed above or below the consonant, or attached to it, representing the vowel, or vocal sound, which precedes or follows the consonant.

  27. To give a point to] to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end; as, to point a dart, or a pencil. Used also figuratively; as, to point a moral.
  28. To direct toward an abject; to aim; as, to point a gun at a wolf, or a cannon at a fort.
  29. Hence, to direct the attention or notice of.

    Whosoever should be guided through his battles by Minerva, and pointed to every scene of them. Pope.

  30. To supply with punctuation marks; to punctuate; as, to point a composition.
  31. To mark (as Hebrew) with vowel points.
  32. To give particular prominence to; to designate in a special manner; to indicate, as if by pointing; as, the error was pointed out.
    Pope.

    He points it, however, by no deviation from his straightforward manner of speech. Dickens.

  33. To indicate or discover by a fixed look, as game.
  34. To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
  35. To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.

    To point a rope (Naut.), to taper and neatly finish off the end by interweaving the nettles. -- To point a sail (Naut.), to affix points through the eyelet holes of the reefs. -- To point off, to divide into periods or groups, or to separate, by pointing, as figures. -- To point the yards (of a vessel) (Naut.), to brace them so that the wind shall strike the sails obliquely. Totten.

  36. To direct the point of something, as of a finger, for the purpose of designating an object, and attracting attention to it; -- with at.

    Now must the world point at poor Katharine. Shak.

    Point at the tattered coat and ragged shoe. Dryden.

  37. To indicate the presence of game by fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.

    He treads with caution, and he points with fear. Gay.

  38. To approximate to the surface; to head; -- said of an abscess.

    To point at, to treat with scorn or contempt by pointing or directing attention to. -- To point well (Naut.), to sail close to the wind; -- said of a vessel.

  39. A pointed piece of quill or bone covered at one end with vaccine matter; -- called also vaccine point.
  40. One of the raised dots used in certain systems of printing and writing for the blind. The first practical system was that devised by Louis Braille in 1829, and still used in Europe (see Braille). Two modifications of this are current in the United States: New York point founded on three bases of equidistant points arranged in two lines (viz., : :: :::), and a later improvement, American Braille, embodying the Braille base (:::) and the New-York-point principle of using the characters of few points for the commonest letters.
  41. In various games, a position of a certain player, or, by extension, the player himself;
    as: (1) (Lacrosse *** Ice Hockey)

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