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Appointee :: Appointee (v. t.) A person in whose favor a power of appointment is executed.

Preappoint :: Preappoint (v. t.) To appoint previously, or beforehand..

Symbol :: Symbol (n.) That which is thrown into a common fund; hence, an appointed or accustomed duty..

Osculate :: Osculate (v. t.) To touch closely, so as to have a common curvature at the point of contact. See Osculation, 2..

Pyramid :: Pyramid (n.) A solid body standing on a triangular, square, or polygonal base, and terminating in a point at the top; especially, a structure or edifice of this shape..

Rove :: Rove (v. i.) To shoot at rovers; hence, to shoot at an angle of elevation, not at point-blank (rovers usually being beyond the point-blank range)..

Acnode :: Acnode (n.) An isolated point not upon a curve, but whose coordinates satisfy the equation of the curve so that it is considered as belonging to the curve..

Back :: Back (v. i.) To stand still behind another dog which has pointed; -- said of a dog.

Stigma :: Stigma (v. t.) A point so connected by any law whatever with another point, called an index, that as the index moves in any manner in a plane the first point or stigma moves in a determinate way in the same plane..

Circuit :: Circuit (n.) A regular or appointed journeying from place to place in the exercise of one's calling, as of a judge, or a preacher..

Polar :: Polar (n.) The right line drawn through the two points of contact of the two tangents drawn from a given point to a given conic section. The given point is called the pole of the line. If the given point lies within the curve so that the two tangents become imaginary, there is still a real polar line which does not meet the curve, but which possesses other properties of the polar. Thus the focus and directrix are pole and polar. There are also poles and polar curves to curves of higher degree th

Embonpoint :: Embonpoint (n.) Plumpness of person; -- said especially of persons somewhat corpulent.

Pole :: Pole (n.) A point upon the surface of a sphere equally distant from every part of the circumference of a great circle; or the point in which a diameter of the sphere perpendicular to the plane of such circle meets the surface. Such a point is called the pole of that circle; as, the pole of the horizon; the pole of the ecliptic; the pole of a given meridian..

Designation :: Designation (n.) Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.

Punctuate :: Punctuate (v. t.) To mark with points; to separate into sentences, clauses, etc., by points or stops which mark the proper pauses in expressing the meaning..

Aristate :: Aristate (a.) Having a pointed, beardlike process, as the glumes of wheat; awned..

Fall :: Fall (v. t.) To assume a look of shame or disappointment; to become or appear dejected; -- said of the countenance.

Finger :: Finger (n.) Anything that does work of a finger; as, the pointer of a clock, watch, or other registering machine; especially (Mech.) a small projecting rod, wire, or piece, which is brought into contact with an object to effect, direct, or restrain a motion..

Beaked :: Beaked (a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.

Phonautograph :: Phonautograph (n.) An instrument by means of which a sound can be made to produce a visible trace or record of itself. It consists essentially of a resonant vessel, usually of paraboloidal form, closed at one end by a flexible membrane. A stylus attached to some point of the membrane records the movements of the latter, as it vibrates, upon a moving cylinder or plate..

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