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Stab :: Stab (v. i.) To give a wound with a pointed weapon; to pierce; to thrust with a pointed weapon.

Transfixion :: Transfixion (n.) The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced..

Penetrative :: Penetrative (a.) Tending to penetrate; of a penetrating quality; piercing; as, the penetrative sun..

Lacquer :: Lacquer (n.) A varnish, consisting of a solution of shell-lac in alcohol, often colored with gamboge, saffron, or the like; -- used for varnishing metals, papier-mache, and wood. The name is also given to varnishes made of other ingredients, esp. the tough, solid varnish of the Japanese, with which ornamental objects are made..

Trestlework :: Trestlework (n.) A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together..

Keen :: Keen (superl.) Bitter; piercing; acrimonious; cutting; stinging; severe; as, keen satire or sarcasm..

Piercer :: Piercer (n.) The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect..

Fork :: Fork (n.) An instrument consisting of a handle with a shank terminating in two or more prongs or tines, which are usually of metal, parallel and slightly curved; -- used from piercing, holding, taking up, or pitching anything..

Dead-eye :: Dead-eye (n.) A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye..

Butment :: Butment (n.) A buttress of an arch; the supporter, or that part which joins it to the upright pier..

Stochastic :: Stoccado (n.) A stab; a thrust with a rapier.

Ear-piercer :: Ear-piercer (n.) The earwig.

Tap :: Tap (n.) A plug or spile for stopping a hole pierced in a cask, or the like; a faucet..

Croupier :: Croupier (n.) One who presides at a gaming table and collects the stakes.

Fast :: Fast (n.) That which fastens or holds; especially, (Naut.) a mooring rope, hawser, or chain; -- called, according to its position, a bow, head, quarter, breast, or stern fast; also, a post on a pier around which hawsers are passed in mooring..

Tap :: Tap (v. t.) To pierce so as to let out, or draw off, a fluid; as, to tap a cask, a tree, a tumor, etc..

Empierce :: Empierce (v. t.) To pierce; to impierce.

Lance :: Lance (v. t.) To open with a lancet; to pierce; as, to lance a vein or an abscess..

Gride :: Gride (e. i.) To cut with a grating sound; to cut; to penetrate or pierce harshly; as, the griding sword..

Hemiptera :: Hemiptera (n. pl.) An order of hexapod insects having a jointed proboscis, including four sharp stylets (mandibles and maxillae), for piercing. In many of the species (Heteroptera) the front wings are partially coriaceous, and different from the others..

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