Definition of point

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Point (n.) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman..

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Point :: Point (n.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon.
Assignation :: Assignation (n.) An appointment of time and place for meeting or interview; -- used chiefly of love interviews, and now commonly in a bad sense..
Place :: Place (n.) To put or set in a particular rank, office, or position; to surround with particular circumstances or relations in life; to appoint to certain station or condition of life; as, in whatever sphere one is placed..
Juncture :: "Juncture (n.) The line or point at which two bodies are joined; a joint; an articulation; a seam; as, the junctures of a vessel or of the bones..
Denounce :: Denounce (v. t.) To point out as deserving of reprehension or punishment, etc.; to accuse in a threatening manner; to invoke censure upon; to stigmatize..
Subdented :: Subdelegate (v. t.) To appoint to act as subdelegate, or as a subordinate; to depete..
Sketch :: Sketch (n.) To plan or describe by giving the principal points or ideas of.
Mucro :: Mucro (n.) A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ..
Aristate :: Aristate (a.) Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned..
Lithologically :: Lithologically (adv.) From a lithological point of view; as, to consider a stratum lithologically..
Decretal :: Decretal (a.) An authoritative order or decree; especially, a letter of the pope, determining some point or question in ecclesiastical law. The decretals form the second part of the canon law..
Toothed :: Toothed (a.) Having marginal projecting points; dentate.
Orthocenter :: Orthocenter (n.) That point in which the three perpendiculars let fall from the angles of a triangle upon the opposite sides, or the sides produced, mutually intersect..
Crag :: Crag (n.) A steep, rugged rock; a rough, broken cliff, or point of a rock, on a ledge..
Query :: Query (n.) An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.
Index :: Index (n.) That which guides, points out, informs, or directs; a pointer or a hand that directs to anything, as the hand of a watch, a movable finger on a gauge, scale, or other graduated instrument. In printing, a sign used to direct particular attention to a note or paragraph; -- called also fist..
Pendulum :: Pendulum (n.) A body so suspended from a fixed point as to swing freely to and fro by the alternate action of gravity and momentum. It is used to regulate the movements of clockwork and other machinery.
Anamorphosis :: Anamorphosis (n.) A distorted or monstrous projection or representation of an image on a plane or curved surface, which, when viewed from a certain point, or as reflected from a curved mirror or through a polyhedron, appears regular and in proportion; a deformation of an image..
Syringotomy :: Syringotome (n.) A small blunt-pointed bistoury, -- used in syringotomy..
Ray :: Ray (n.) One of a system of diverging lines passing through a point, and regarded as extending indefinitely in both directions. See Half-ray..
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