Bristle-pointed (a.) Terminating in a very fine, sharp point, as some leaves. |
Needle-pointed (a.) Pointed as needles. |
Pointed (imp. & p. p.) of Point |
Pointed (a.) Sharp |
Pointed (a.) Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression |
Probe-pointed (a.) Having a blunt or button-shaped extremity |
Prow (n.) The fore part of a vessel |
Prow (n.) See Proa. |
Prow (superl.) Valiant |
Prow (a.) Benefit |
Rostrums (pl. ) of Rostrum |
Rostrum (n.) The beak or head of a ship. |
Rostrum (n.) The Beaks |
Rostrum (n.) Hence, a stage for public speaking |
Rostrum (n.) Any beaklike prolongation, esp. of the head of an animal, as the beak of birds. |
Rostrum (n.) The beak, or sucking mouth parts, of Hemiptera. |
Rostrum (n.) The snout of a gastropod mollusk. See Illust. of Littorina. |
Rostrum (n.) The anterior, often spinelike, prolongation of the carapace of a crustacean, as in the lobster and the prawn. |
Rostrum (n.) Same as Rostellum. |
Rostrum (n.) The pipe to convey the distilling liquor into its receiver in the common alembic. |
Rostrum (n.) A pair of forceps of various kinds, having a beaklike form. |
Spur (n.) A sparrow. |
Spur (n.) A tern. |
Spur (n.) An implement secured to the heel, or above the heel, of a horseman, to urge the horse by its pressure. Modern spurs have a small wheel, or rowel, with short points. Spurs were the badge of knighthood. |
Spur (n.) That which goads to action |
Spur (n.) Something that projects |
Spur (n.) One of the large or principal roots of a tree. |
Spur (n.) Any stiff, sharp spine, as on the wings and legs of certain burds, on the legs of insects, etc. |
Spur (n.) A mountain that shoots from any other mountain, or range of mountains, and extends to some distance in a lateral direction, or at right angles. |
Spur (n.) A spiked iron worn by seamen upon the bottom of the boot, to enable them to stand upon the carcass of a whale, to strip off the blubber. |
Spur (n.) A brace strengthening a post and some connected part, as a rafter or crossbeam |
Spur (n.) The short wooden buttress of a post. |
Spur (n.) A projection from the round base of a column, occupying the angle of a square plinth upon which the base rests, or bringing the bottom bed of the base to a nearly square form. It is generally carved in leafage. |
Spur (n.) Any projecting appendage of a flower looking like a spur. |
Spur (n.) Ergotized rye or other grain. |
Spur (n.) A wall that crosses a part of a rampart and joins to an inner wall. |
Spur (n.) A piece of timber fixed on the bilge ways before launching, having the upper ends bolted to the vessel's side. |
Spur (n.) A curved piece of timber serving as a half to support the deck where a whole beam can not be placed. |
Spur (v. t.) To prick with spurs |
Spur (v. t.) To urge or encourage to action, or to a more vigorous pursuit of an object |
Spur (v. t.) To put spurs on |
Spur (v. i.) To spur on one' horse |
Spur-royal (n.) A gold coin, first made in the reign of Edward IV., having a star on the reverse resembling the rowel of a spur. In the reigns of Elizabeth and of James I., its value was fifteen shillings. |
Spur-shell (n.) Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. The shell is conical, with the margin toothed somewhat like the rowel of a spur. |
Spur-winged (a.) Having one or more spurs on the bend of the wings. |
Three-pointed (a.) Having three acute or setigerous points |