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A miner's two-pointed pick.

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• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• POINT SWITCH
  A switch made up of a rail from each track, both rails being tapered far back and connected to throw alongside the through rail of either track.
• MINERVA
  The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
• POINTLESSLY
  Without point.
• POINT-DEVICE; POINT-DEVISE
  Uncommonly nice and exact; precise; particular. You are rather point-devise in your accouterments. Shak. Thus he grew up, in logic point-devise, Perfect in grammar, and in rhetoric nice. Longfellow. (more info) + point point, condition + devis
• POINTAL
  The pistil of a plant. 2. A kind of pencil or style used with the tablets of the Middle Ages. "A pair of tablets . . . and a pointel." Chaucer.
• POINTED
  1. Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock. 2. Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. His moral pleases, not his pointed wit. Pope.
• POINT ALPHABET
  An alphabet for the blind with a system of raised points corresponding to letters.
• POINTSMAN
  A man who has charge of railroad points or switches.
• POINTLESS
  Having no point; blunt; wanting keenness; obtuse; as, a pointless sword; a pointless remark. Syn. -- Blunt; obtuse, dull; stupid.
• MINERALOGICALLY
  According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
• POINTLETED
  Having a small, distinct point; apiculate. Henslow.
• POINT D'APPUI
  See APPUI
• MINERALOGY
  1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them. 2. A treatise or book on this science.
• MINERALIST
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• POINTING
  The act or process of measuring, at the various distances from the surface of a block of marble, the surface of a future piece of statuary; also, a process used in cutting the statue from the artist's model. (more info) 1. The act of sharpening.
• MINERALOGIZE
  To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.
• POINT-BLANK
  1. The white spot on a target, at which an arrow or other missile is aimed. Jonson. With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory. With artillery, the point where the projectile
• MINERALIZER
  An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
• MINERALIZE
  1. To transform into a mineral. In these caverns the bones are not mineralized. Buckland. 2. To impregnate with a mineral; as, mineralized water.
• CROSS-EXAMINER
  One who cross-examines or conducts a crosse-examination.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• ILLUMINER
  One who, or that which, illuminates.
• TROIS POINT
  The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
• REAPPOINT
  To appoint again.
• STANDPOINT
  A fixed point or station; a basis or fundamental principle; a position from which objects or principles are viewed, and according to which they are compared and judged.
• INTERPOINT
  To point; to mark with stops or pauses; to punctuate. Her sighs should interpoint her words. Daniel.
• AETHIOPS MINERAL
  See MINERAL
• PREAPPOINTMENT
  Previous appointment.
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• CALCIMINER
  One who calcimines.
• UNDERMINER
  One who undermines.