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Short :: Short (superl.) Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant; as, he gave a short answer to the question..

Nib :: Nib (n.) A small and pointed thing or part; a point; a prong.

Stop :: Stop (n.) A point or mark in writing or printing intended to distinguish the sentences, parts of a sentence, or clauses; a mark of punctuation. See Punctuation..

Sagitta :: Sagitta (n.) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; -- so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string..

Puncticular :: Puncticular (a.) Comprised in, or like, a point; exact..

Hypothesis :: Hypothesis (n.) A supposition; a proposition or principle which is supposed or taken for granted, in order to draw a conclusion or inference for proof of the point in question; something not proved, but assumed for the purpose of argument, or to account for a fact or an occurrence; as, the hypothesis that head winds detain an overdue steamer..

Traverse :: Traverse (a.) The turning of a gun so as to make it point in any desired direction.

Parabola :: Parabola (n.) A kind of curve; one of the conic sections formed by the intersection of the surface of a cone with a plane parallel to one of its sides. It is a curve, any point of which is equally distant from a fixed point, called the focus, and a fixed straight line, called the directrix. See Focus..

Prepositor :: Prepositor (n.) A scholar appointed to inspect other scholars; a monitor.

Cultrated :: Cultrated (a.) Sharp-edged and pointed; shaped like a pruning knife, as the beak of certain birds..

Fetlock :: Fetlock (n.) The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair..

Leveling :: Leveling (n.) The art or operation of using a leveling instrument for finding a horizontal line, for ascertaining the differences of level between different points of the earth's surface included in a survey, for establishing grades, etc., as in finding the descent of a river, or locating a line of railroad..

Hither :: Hither (adv.) To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical..

House :: House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in

Tongue :: Tongue (n.) A point, or long, narrow strip of land, projecting from the mainland into a sea or a lake..

Intercept :: Intercept (n.) A part cut off or intercepted, as a portion of a line included between two points, or cut off two straight lines or curves..

Sharp :: Sharp (superl.) Affecting the sense as if pointed or cutting, keen, penetrating, acute: to the taste or smell, pungent, acid, sour, as ammonia has a sharp taste and odor; to the hearing, piercing, shrill, as a sharp sound or voice; to the eye, instantaneously brilliant, dazzling, as a sharp flash..

Dibble :: Dibble (v. i.) A pointed implement used to make holes in the ground in which no set out plants or to plant seeds.

Executor :: Executor (n.) The person appointed by a testator to execute his will, or to see its provisions carried into effect, after his decease..

Vertex :: Vertex (n.) A turning point; the principal or highest point; top; summit; crown; apex.

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