Word Meanings - POUNCED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle. Thomson. 2. Ornamented with perforations or dots. "Gilt bowls pounced and pierced." Holinshed.

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• YOUNGISH
  Somewhat young. Tatler.
• POUNCED
  1. Furnished with claws or talons; as, the pounced young of the eagle. Thomson. 2. Ornamented with perforations or dots. "Gilt bowls pounced and pierced." Holinshed.
• FURNISHMENT
  The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture; also, furniture. Daniel.
• EAGLESTONE
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.
• YOUNG
  , , AS. geong; akin to OFries. iung, iong, D. joing, OS., OHG., & G. jung, Icel. ungr, Sw. & Dan. ung, Goth. juggs, Lith. jaunas, Russ. iunuii, L. juvencus, juvenis, Skr. juva, juven. Junior, Juniper, 1. Not long born; still in the first part of
• EAGLEWOOD
  A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.
• YOUNGTH
  Youth. Youngth is a bubble blown up with breath. Spenser.
• ORNAMENTAL
  Serving to ornament; characterized by ornament; beautifying; embellishing. Some think it most ornamental to wear their bracelets on their wrists; others, about their ankles. Sir T. Browne.
• YOUNGNESS
  The quality or state of being young.
• POUNCET BOX
  A box with a perforated lid, for sprinkling pounce, or for holding perfumes. Shak.
• PIERCER
  1. One who, or that which, pierces or perforates; specifically: An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto. A piercel. The ovipositor, or sting, of an insect. An insect provided with an ovipositor.
• YOUNG ONE
  A young human being; a child; also, a young animal, as a colt.
• THOMSONIANISM
  An empirical system which assumes that the human body is composed of four elements, earth, air, fire, and water, and that vegetable medicines alone should be used; -- from the founder, Dr. Samuel Thomson, of Massachusetts.
• EAGLE-EYED
  Sharp-sighted as an eagle. "Inwardly eagle-eyed." Howell.
• YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
  An organization for promoting the spiritual, intellectual, social, and economic welfare of young women, originating in 1855 with Lady Kinnaird's home for young women, and Miss Emma Robert's prayer union for young women,in England, which
• POUNCING
  1. The art or practice of transferring a design by means of pounce. 2. Decorative perforation of cloth.
• EAGLE-SIGHTED
  Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted. Shak.
• FURNISH
  Pr. formir, furmir, fromir, to accomplish, satisfy, fr. OHG. frumjan to further, execute, do, akin to E. frame. See Frame, v. t., and - 1. To supply with anything necessary, useful, or appropriate; to provide; to equip; to fit out, or fit up; to
• ORNAMENTER
  One who ornaments; a decorator.
• FURNISHER
  One who supplies or fits out.
• YOUNGLY
  Like a young person or thing; young; youthful. Shak.
• TRANSPIERCE
  To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
• BALD EAGLE
  The white-headed eagle of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head. Note: The bald eagle is represented in the coat of arms, and on the coins, of the United States.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• PORBEAGLE
  A species of shark , about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark.
• WATER EAGLE
  The osprey.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• DISFURNISH
  To deprive of that with which anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.