1420 in E. F. Jacob & H. C. Johnson Reg. Henry Chichele (1937) II. 197 Unam peciam argenti vocatam platpece pounsed.

1454 in E. W. W. Veale Great Red Bk. Bristol: Text Pt. II (1938) 90 (MED) Item, vnum pownced pece cum suo coopertorio.

1502 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 258 My best pownsyd peece.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid ix. v. 94 Twa siluer coupis..With figuris grave and punsyt ymagery.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Pounced plate, anaglypha, anaglypta.

1582 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 132 A pounse [? pounsed] bolle parcell gylt.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde iii. x. f. 144^v With a sharpe prycke made eyther of bone, or elles with a thorne, they make holes in their faces: and foorthwith sprinkelynge a pouder theron, they moiste the pounced place with a certeyne blacke or redde iuise.

1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 115 That their Nobilitie and Gentry thus spotted, may carrie these starres about them, in their painted pownced limmes, as badges.

?a1563 W. Baldwin Beware Cat (1584) iii. sig. Eiii^v The yung woman to whom shee shewed her ponced thies, said I was an unnatural daughter to deale so with my mother.

a1811 J. Grahame Brit. Georgics (1812) 60 See her [sc. a mother hen] issue forth, with plumes All ruffled, and attack the foe, and drive Him, howling, out of doors, drooping his tail, And shaking, as he runs, his well-pounced ears.

1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. A8^v And that he may obtaine his lust, compares Her eyes to starres, to Amber her pounc't hayres.

1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. vi. xv. 546 b Their frizled Periwigs, Love-lockes, and long effeminate pouldred pounced haire.

1683 Capt. Wylde Let. in S. Pepys Life (1841) I. 422 Cotton yarn..which they dip in the liquor, squeezing it gently,..so running along the pounced work, where it turns black in a trice.

1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum II. at Wor Draw over the pounced strokes of your figure as neatly as you can.

1855 W. Williams Transparency Painting on Linen 28 The pattern being removed, the pounced design is secured by being traced with a soft black-lead pencil, and drawn in with a reed pen.

1984–5 S. F. Lake in Jrnl. Walters Art Gall. (Baltimore) XLII. 62/1 When discolored varnish and repaint were removed, a pounced underdrawing was discovered.

2001 Oxf. Compan. Western Art 594/2 Tiny prick holes were made in the sheet along the lines and the dust was rubbed or 'pounced' through the holes leaving an outline in dots on the support beneath.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Carnation The Flowers of the Picketees are always of a white Ground, spotted or pounced, as they call it, with Red or Purple.

1797 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener 660 These four latter are large, finely striped and pounced carnations.

1807 G. Crabbe Parish Reg. i, in Poems 40 Tulips tall-stemm'd and pounc'd Auricula's rise.

1892 E. Castle Eng. Book-plates 145 The achievements and scrolls and pounced background common to the printers' mark.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 135 Some haggar'd Hawk..Well pounc'd to fasten, and well wing'd to fly.

1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Pythagorean Philos. 570 The strong pounc'd Eagle and the billing dove.

1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) at Lanner Lanners..are less armed and pounced than other Falcons.

1787 Generous Attachment III. 5 The soft doves of Venus will then flit away before the strong pounced eagle of ambition.