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Word Meanings - TEREBRATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To perforate; to bore; to pierce. Sir T. Browne.

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  • PUNCHER
    One who, or that which, punches.
  • PUNCTURE
    1. The act of puncturing; perforating with something pointed. 2. A small hole made by a point; a slight wound, bite, or sting; as, the puncture of a nail, needle, or pin. A lion may perish by the puncture of an asp. Rambler.
  • PUNCHY
    Short and thick, or fat.
  • PUNCHINELLO
    A punch; a buffoon; originally, in a puppet show, a character represented as fat, short, and humpbacked. Spectator. (more info) of endearment, dim. of pulcina, pulcino, a chicken, from L.
  • 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.
  • PERFORATE
    To bore through; to pierce through with a pointed instrument; to make a hole or holes through by boring or piercing; to pierce or penetrate the surface of. Bacon.
  • PERFORATE; PERFORATED
    Pierced with a hole or holes, or with pores; having transparent dots resembling holes.
  • PUNCHEON
    A short, upright piece of timber in framing; a short post; an intermediate stud. Oxf. Gloss. 3. A split log or heavy slab with the face smoothed; as, a floor made of puncheons. Bartlett. 4. Etym: (more info) punctio a pricking, fr. pungere to
  • PUNCHIN
    See PUNCHEON
  • PIERCEL
    A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.
  • PIERCE
    LL. pertusiare for pertusare, fr. L. pertundere, pertusum, to beat, push, bore through; per through + tundere to beat: cf. OF. pertuisier to pierce, F. pertuis a hole. Cf. Contuse, Parch, 1. To thrust into, penetrate, or transfix, with a pointed
  • PUNCH
    A beverage composed of wine or distilled liquor, water (or milk), sugar, and the juice of lemon, with spice or mint; -- specifically named from the kind of spirit used; as rum punch, claret punch, champagne punch, etc. Milk punch, a sort of punch
  • PUNCTURED
    Produced by puncture; having the characteristics of a puncture; as, a punctured wound. (more info) 1. Having the surface covered with minute indentations or dots.
  • PIERCEABLE
    That may be pierced.
  • PIERCED
    Penetrated; entered; perforated.
  • TEREBRATE
    To perforate; to bore; to pierce. Sir T. Browne.
  • TRANSPIERCE
    To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through. The sides transpierced return a rattling sound. Dryden.
  • PRICKPUNCH
    A pointed steel punch, to prick a mark on metal.
  • AQUAPUNCTURE
    The introduction of water subcutaneously for the relief of pain.
  • IMPIERCE
    To pierce; to penetrate. Drayton.
  • EMPIERCE
    To pierce; to impierce. Spenser.
  • ENPIERCE
    To pierce. Shak.
  • IMPERFORATE; IMPERFORATED
    Not perforated; having no opening or aperture. Sir J. Banks.
  • ACUPUNCTURE
    Pricking with a needle; a needle prick. Specifically :
  • ELECTRO-PUNCTURE
    An operation that consists in inserting needless in the part affected, and connecting them with the poles of a galvanic apparatus.

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