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▪ I. pointed, ppl. a.1|ˈpɔɪntɪd|
[f. point v.1 and n.1 + -ed.]
1. a. Having a point or points; tapering to or ending in a point. pointed box: see quot. 1881.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 6342 Smot him..Wiþ a long ipointed [v.r. pointed] knif iegged in eiþer side. c1400Mandeville (1839) xiv. 158 Thei [diamonds] ben square and poynted of here owne kynde. 1552Huloet, Poynted, or hauynge a poynte, cuspidatus, mucronatus. 1575Laneham Let. (1871) 51 Beautifyed with great Diamons, Emerauds, Rubyes, and Saphyres: poynted, tabld, rok, and roound. 1725Coats Dict. Her., Pointed, a Cross pointed, is that which has the Extremities turn'd off into Points by strait Lines. 1747Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 II. 67 The wonderful effect of pointed bodies, both in drawing off and throwing off the electrical fire. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxii. 158, I saw a row of pointed rocks at some distance below me. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Pointed boxes, boxes in the form of inverted pyramids or wedges in which ores, after crushing and sizing, are separated in a current of water.
b. Arch. In pointed arch, an arch with a pointed crown; hence applied to the style of architecture characterized by this feature: cf. Gothic 3 b.
1750S. Wren in Parentalia 273 They had not yet fallen into the Gothick pointed-arch. 1812Rickman Archit. (1817) 41 Pointed arches are either equilateral..or drop arches..or lancet arches. 1823P. Nicholson Pract. Build. Gloss., Pointed architecture, that style vulgarly called Gothic, more properly English. 1848B. Webb Cont. Ecclesiol. 47 The apse-windows are late Pointed, of two lights trefoiled. 1874Parker Goth. Archit. i. ii. 21 The First Pointed style in England is..the style of the twelfth century. a1878Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) I. 18 The round-arch variety [was perfected] in the twelfth, and the pointed-arch in the two succeeding centuries.
2. fig. Having the quality of penetrating or piercing the sensations, feelings, or mind; piercing, cutting, stinging, pungent, ‘sharp’; having point.
1665Dryden Ind. Emperor i. ii, Turn hence those pointed Glories of your Eyes. 1701De Foe True-born Eng. 3 'Tis pointed Truth must manage this Dispute. a1704T. Brown Sat. on Quack Wks. 1730 I. 62 Th' impartial muse, in pointed stabbing verse, Shall all thy several villanies rehearse. 1769Sir W. Jones Pal. Fortune Poems (1777) 25 A weak defence from hunger's pointed sting. a1839Praed Poems (1864) II. 92 Some put their trust in answer smart or pointed repartee. 1882Stevenson New Arab. Nts. (1884) 245 The air was raw and pointed. 1897Westm. Gaz. 10 May 2/3 The most pointed thing to say about a person is that he ‘means well’. 1904E. Rickert Reaper 261 A wee thing with pointed black eyes.
3. Fitted or furnished with tagged points or laces; wearing points; laced. Obs. exc. Hist.
1508Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scotl. IV. 21 For xj elne satin to be ane pointit cote to the King. 1552Huloet, Poynted, or tyed wyth poyntes, ligulatus. 1904M. Hewlett Queen's Quair i. vi, Young men, trunked, puffed, pointed, trussed and doubleted.
4. a. Directed, aimed; fig. particularly directed or aimed; marked, emphasized, clearly defined, made evident.
1578Whetstone 2nd Pt. Promos & Cass. i. i. G iij, So ofte as men, with poynted fingers tell Their friendes, my faultes. 1778F. Burney Evelina (1791) II. xxvii. 167 His attention..is so pointed, that it always confuses me. 1798Jane Austen Northang. Abb. xxix, Only ten days ago had he elated her by his pointed regard. 1870Freeman Norm. Conq. I. App. 646 The pointed marking out of Thored as ‘Eorl’..is an unusual piece of accuracy.
b. Exact to a point; precise.
1727P. Walker Life Peden (1827) 85, I doubt nothing of the Truth of them in my own Mind, tho' I be not pointed in Time and Place. 1860Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. III. cxv. 48 The identical member..who was most pointed in showing up the dishonesty of the act inculpated. 1878Gladstone Prim. Homer vi. 63 Its harbour is described with pointed correctness. 1893Mrs. Oliphant Lady William I. viii. 130 How often must I tell you not to be so pointed with your half-hours?
5. a. In various other senses of the verb: see quots.
c1440Promp. Parv. 406/2 Poyntyd, or prykkyd, punctatus. 1659J. Leak Waterwks. 29 Another marked with pointed lines. 1874Knight Dict. Mech. I. 168/2 Pointed Ashlar, the face-marking done by a pointed tool or one very narrow. a1907Mod. Such is the reading of the pointed Hebrew text. 1934Priebsch & Collinson German Lang. 357 In German documents it [sc. Anglo-Saxon type] occurs usually in the pointed (Lowe: miniscule) form. 1947Hansard Commons 15 Dec. 1451 Mr. Lipson asked..if smaller tins of pointed foodstuffs can be provided. 1957Encycl. Brit. XIX. 664/2 The pointed runes were generally known and used in the whole of the Scandinavian North throughout the Middle Ages as the writing of cultured laymen.
b. pointed blanket = point blanket.
1779in Beaver (1935) June 47 Sends samples of five different sorts of Pointed blankets with their respective prices per pair. 1780in E. E. Rich Moose Fort Jrnl., 1783–85 356 We now send..pointed Blankets of different sizes..to be delivered to him. 1926[see point blanket s.v. point n.1 D. 19]. 1956Beaver Summer 50 It can be no coincidence that while Maugenest was in London enquiries were put in hand for Pointed blankets.
c. pointed fox: (see quots.). Cf. point v.1 20.
1911Directory Fur Trade (N.Y.) 11 Fine Kamchatka and American Foxes in Sitka, Pointed, Black and Baumarten. 1913J. W. Jones Fur-Farming in Canada iv. 100 Latterly, the Germans have developed a large trade in ‘pointed fox’, which is an ordinary cheap fox dyed black, and afterwards ‘pointed’ by sewing in white hairs. 1939M. Byers Designing Women iii. xix. 250 Pointed Fox is red fox dyed black with white hairs stuck into it artificially. 1952Lapick & Gelle Scientific Fur Servicing 7 In pointed fox the inserted hairs are generally all white. 1969R. T. Wilcox Dict. Costume (1970) 142/1 Fox, pointed, the common red fox dyed black and pointed with silvery badger hairs to simulate silver fox.
6. Comb., as pointed-arched, pointed-butted, pointed-toed adjs., pointed-wise adv.
1611Florio, A spícchio, made pointed-wise, like the streakes of the Sunne. 1891‘L. Malet’ Wages of Sin III. v. vi. 33 Presenting his cousin with a fine view of a pointed-toed shoe sole. 1900in Archæol. Jrnl. Mar. 66 The wide pointed-arched window in the west wall. 1928Peake & Fleure Steppe & Sown iii. 46 Pointed-butted axes of jadeite and other hard stone came into use as well as flint. 1962Times 30 Jan. 12/5 Pointed-toed backless shoes.
▪ II. † ˈpointed, ppl. a.2 Obs.
[f. point v.2 + -ed1.]
= appointed.
1523Skelton Garl. Laurel 420 Before the quenes grace, In whose court poynted is your place. 1580Sidney Ps. xxi. xii, Thou shalt a-row Set them in pointed places. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. iii. i. 19 Ile not be tied to howres, nor pointed times. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 152 At pointed Seasons. 1709Prior Ode to Col. Villiers 17 Poems (1711) 136 Pow'r, To hasten or protract the pointed Hour. |