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Point :: Point (n.) 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..

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A pointed head or spike; esp., one in the center of a shield or target..

Belemnite :: Belemnite (n.) A conical calcareous fossil, tapering to a point at the lower extremity, with a conical cavity at the other end, where it is ordinarily broken; but when perfect it contains a small chambered cone, called the phragmocone, prolonged, on one side, into a delicate concave blade; the thunderstone. It is the internal shell of a cephalopod related to the sepia, and belonging to an extinct family. The belemnites are found in rocks of the Jurassic and Cretaceous ages..

Appointable :: Appointable (a.) Capable of being appointed or constituted.

Point :: Point (n.) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef..

Umbilicated :: Umbilicated (a.) Supported by a stalk at the central point.

Drive :: Drive (v. i.) To press forward; to aim, or tend, to a point; to make an effort; to strive; -- usually with at..

Stick :: Stick (n.) To fix on a pointed instrument; to impale; as, to stick an apple on a fork..

Dictum :: Dictum (n.) A judicial opinion expressed by judges on points that do not necessarily arise in the case, and are not involved in it..

Lambda :: Lambda (n.) The point of junction of the sagittal and lambdoid sutures of the skull.

Poke :: Poke (n.) A contrivance to prevent an animal from leaping or breaking through fences. It consists of a yoke with a pole inserted, pointed forward..

Conjugate :: Conjugate (a.) Presenting themselves simultaneously and having reciprocal properties; -- frequently used in pure and applied mathematics with reference to two quantities, points, lines, axes, curves, etc..

Picket :: Picket (v. t.) To fortify with pointed stakes.

Mission :: Mission (n.) Persons sent; any number of persons appointed to perform any service; a delegation; an embassy.

Dogtooth :: Dogtooth (n.) An ornament common in Gothic architecture, consisting of pointed projections resembling teeth; -- also called tooth ornament..

Period :: Period (n.) The punctuation point [.] that marks the end of a complete sentence, or of an abbreviated word..

Stop :: Stop (v. t.) To point, as a composition; to punctuate..

Quarter :: Quarter (n.) One of the divisions of an escutcheon when it is divided into four portions by a horizontal and a perpendicular line meeting in the fess point.

Phonautograph :: Phonautograph (n.) An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate..

Folium :: Folium (n.) A curve of the third order, consisting of two infinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy..

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