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Point
·noun A <<Switch>>. II. Point ·noun To mark (as Hebrew) with vowel points. III. Point ·noun One of...

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point
To stretch a point; to exceed some usual limit, to take a great stride. Breeches were usually tied u...

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point
A low spit of land projecting from the main into the sea, almost synonymous with promontory or head....

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dream-holes
the openings left in the walls of steeples, towers, barns, &c. for the admission of light. Glouc. ...

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blow-holes
The nostrils of the cetaceans, situated on the highest part of the head. In the whalebone whales the...

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bobstay-holes
Those cut through the fore-part of the knee of the head, between the cheeks, for the admission of th...

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cat-holes
Places or spaces made in the quarter, for carrying out fasts or springs for steadying or heaving ast...

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eyelet-holes
, are necessary in order to bend a sail to its yard or boom, or to reef it; they consist of round ho...

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futtock-holes
Places through the top-rim for the futtock-plates. ...

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hawse-holes
Cylindrical holes cut through the bows of a ship on each side of the stem, through which the cables ...

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head-holes
The eyelet-holes where the rope-bands of a sail are fitted; they are worked button-hole fashion, ove...

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holes, eyelet
or œillet. The holes in sails for points and rope-bands which are fenced round by stitching the ed...

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lewis-holes
Two holes in the surface of a mortar, superseding ears. ...

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loop-holes
Small openings made in the walls of a castle, or a fortification, for musketry to fire through. Also...

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marline-holes
Holes made for marling, or lacing the foot-rope and clues in courses and top-sails. ...

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mast-holes
The apertures in the deck-partners for stepping the masts. ...

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port-holes
See ports ...

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sludge-holes
Adaptations at the ends of the water-passages between the flues of a steamer's boilers, by which the...

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Cover-point
·noun The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point.". ...

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Dew-point
·noun The temperature at which dew begins to form. It varies with the humidity and temperature of th...

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Dust-point
·noun An old rural game. ...

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Libration point
·noun any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each...

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Point alphabet
·add. ·- An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters. ...

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Point applique
·add. ·- Lace having a needle-made design applied to a net ground, this ground often being machine-m...

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Point d'appui
·- ·see under <<Appui>>. ...

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Point switch
·add. ·- A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected...

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Point-blank
·adv In a point-blank manner. II. Point-blank ·noun The white spot on a target, at which an arrow o...

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Point-device
·adj ·Alt. of Point-devise. II. Point-device ·adv ·Alt. of Point-devise. ...

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Point-devise
·adv <<Exactly>>. II. Point-devise ·adj Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. ...

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Trois point
·add. ·- The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table. ...

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Vaccine point
·add. ·- ·see <<Point>>, ·noun, 26. ...

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Vantage point
·add. ·- A point giving advantage; vantage ground. ...

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needle point
A sharper. ...

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stand-point
(Germ. stand-punkt.) Place of standing; point of view. An expression lately introduced from the Germ...

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autumnal point
That part of the ecliptic whence the sun descends southward. ...

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balancing-point
A familiar term for centre of gravity. (See gravity, centre of.) ...

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dew-point
A meteorological term for the degree of temperature at which the moisture of the atmosphere would be...

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half-point
A subdivision of the compass card, equal to 5° 37′ of the circle. ...

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lubber's point
A black vertical line or mark in the compass-bowl in the direction of the ship's head, by which the ...

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point-beacher
A low woman of Portsmouth. ...

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point-blank
Direct on the object; "blank" being the old word for the mark on the practice-butt. ...

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point iron
A large sort of plumb for the nice adjustment of perpendicularity for a given line. ...

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point brass or iron
A large sort of plumb for the nice adjustment of perpendicularity for a given line. ...

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quarter-point
A subdivision of the compass-card, equal to 2° 48′ 45″ of the circle. ...

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point-blank firing
That wherein no elevation is given to the gun, its axis being pointed for the object. ...

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point-blank range
The distance to which a shot was reckoned to range straight, without appreciable drooping from the f...

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first point of aries
See aries. ...

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point a gun, to
To direct it on a given object. ...

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point a sail, to
To affix points through the eyelet-holes of the reefs. (See points.) ...

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point-de-galle canoe
Consists of a single stem of Dúp wood, 18 to 30 feet long, from 1-1/2 to 2-1/2 feet broad, and from ...

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point of the compass
The 32d part of the circumference, or 11° 15′. ...

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