POETRESS
PO'ETRESS, noun A female poet.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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POETRY
PO'ETRY, noun [Gr.] Metrical composition; verse; as heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry1. The art or practice of composing in verse. He excels in poetry2. P...
POIGNANCY
POIGNANCY, noun poin'ancy. [See Poignant.]1. Sharpness; the power of stimulating the organs of taste.2. Point; sharpness; keenness; the power of irritation; asperity; as the poi...
POIGNANT
POIGNANT, adjective poin'ant. [Latin pungere, pungo, to prick.]1. Sharp; stimulating the organs of taste; as poignant sauce.2. Pointed; keen; bitter; irritating; satirical; as p...
POIGNANTLY
POIGNANTLY, adverb poin'antly. In a stimulating, piercing or irritating manner; with keenness or point.
POINT
POINT, noun [Latin punctum, from pungo, to prick, properly to thrust, preterit tense pepugi, showing that n is not radical.]1. The sharp end of any instrument or body; as the po...
POINTAL
POINT'AL, noun In botany, the pistil of a plant; an organ or viscus adhering to the fruit for the reception of the pollen. Its appearance is that of a column or set of columns i...
POINTED
POINT'ED, participle passive Sharpened; formed to a point; directed; aimed.1. Aimed at a particular person or transaction.2.adjective Sharp; having a sharp point; as a pointed r...
POINTEDLY
POINT'EDLY, adverb In a pointed manner; with lively turns of thought or expression.He often wrote too pointedly for his subject.1. With direct assertion; with direct reference t...
POINTEDNESS
POINT'EDNESS, noun Sharpness; pickedness with asperity.1. Epigrammatical keenness or smartness.In this you excel Horace, that you add pointedness of thought.
POINTEL
POINT'EL, noun Something on a point.These poises or pointels are, for the most part, little balls set at the top of a slender stalk, which they can move every way at pleasure.1....
POINTER
POINT'ER, noun Any thing that points.1. The hand of a time-piece.2. A dog that points out the game to sportsmen.
POINTING
POINT'ING, participle present tense Directing the finger; showing; directing.1. Marking with points; as a writing.2. Filling the joints and crevices of a wall with mortar or cem...
POINTING-STOCK
POINT'ING-STOCK, noun An object of ridicule or scorn.
POINTLESS
POINT'LESS, adjective Having no point; blunt; obtuse; as a pointless sword.1. Having no smartness or keenness.
POISE
POISE, noun poiz.1. Weight; gravity; that which causes a body to descend or tend to the center.2. The weight or mass of metal used in weighing with steelyards, to balance the su...
POISED
POIS'ED, participle passive Balanced; made equal in weight; resting in equilibrium.
POISING
POIS'ING, participle present tense Balancing.
POISON
POISON, noun poiz'n. [Latin pus.]1. A substance which, when taken into the stomach, mixed with the blood or applied to the skin or flesh, proves fatal or deleterious by an actio...
POISON-TREE
POIS'ON-TREE, noun A tree that poisons the flesh. This name is given to a species of Rhus or sumac, the Rhus vernix or poison ash, a native of America; also to the bohun upas of...
POISONED
POIS'ONED, participle passive Infected or destroyed by poison.
POISONER
POIS'ONER, noun One who poisons or corrupts; that which corrupts.
POISONING
POIS'ONING, participle present tense Infecting with poison; corrupting.
POISONOUS
POIS'ONOUS, adjective Venomous; having the qualities of poison; corrupting; impairing soundness of purity.
POISONOUSLY
POIS'ONOUSLY, adverb With fatal or injurious effects; venomously.
POISONOUSNESS
POIS'ONOUSNESS, noun The quality of being fatal or injurious to health and soundness; venomousness.
POITREL
POI'TREL, noun [Latin pectorale, from pectus, the breast.]1. Armor for the breast.2. A graving tool.