Definition of point

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Point (n.) 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..

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Assessor :: Assessor (v.) One appointed or elected to assist a judge or magistrate with his special knowledge of the subject to be decided; as legal assessors, nautical assessors..
Cuspated :: Cuspated (a.) Ending in a point.
Territory :: Territory (n.) In the United States, a portion of the country not included within the limits of any State, and not yet admitted as a State into the Union, but organized with a separate legislature, under a Territorial governor and other officers appointed by the President and Senate of the United States. In Canada, a similarly organized portion of the country not yet formed into a Province..
Cross :: Cross (n.) Affiction regarded as a test of patience or virtue; trial; disappointment; opposition; misfortune.
Curtana :: Curtana (n.) The pointless sword carried before English monarchs at their coronation, and emblematically considered as the sword of mercy; -- also called the sword of Edward the Confessor..
Spire :: Spire (n.) A tapering body that shoots up or out to a point in a conical or pyramidal form. Specifically (Arch.), the roof of a tower when of a pyramidal form and high in proportion to its width; also, the pyramidal or aspiring termination of a tower which can not be said to have a roof, such as that of Strasburg cathedral; the tapering part of a steeple, or the steeple itself..
Balk :: Balk (v. i.) A hindrance or disappointment; a check.
Concur :: Concur (v. i.) To meet in the same point; to combine or conjoin; to contribute or help toward a common object or effect.
Disappointment :: Disappointment (n.) The act of disappointing, or the state of being disappointed; defeat or failure of expectation or hope; miscarriage of design or plan; frustration..
Pointless :: Pointless (a.) Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark..
Spit :: Spit (n.) A small point of land running into the sea, or a long, narrow shoal extending from the shore into the sea; as, a spit of sand..
Jointer :: Jointer (n.) A tool for pointing the joints in brickwork.
Zenith :: Zenith (n.) That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.
Straight :: Straight (superl.) Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber..
Indication :: Indication (n.) That which serves to indicate or point out; mark; token; sign; symptom; evidence.
Constitutionally :: Constitutionally (adv.) In accordance with the constitution or fundamental law; legally; as, he was not constitutionally appointed..
Olay :: Olay (n. pl.) Palm leaves, prepared for being written upon with a style pointed with steel..
Pierce :: Pierce (v. i.) To enter; to penetrate; to make a way into or through something, as a pointed instrument does; -- used literally and figuratively..
Restitution :: Restitution (v.) The movement of rotetion which usually occurs in childbirth after the head has been delivered, and which causes the latter to point towards the side to which it was directed at the beginning of labor..
Piercing :: Piercing (a.) Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust..
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