Charles's impudence and bad character are great points in my favour

Sheridan, School for Scandal, iv. 2. 17. In piquet , the number of cards in the longest suit of a hand: as, what is your point ? Six.18. In lace - making , needle-point lace: as, Alençon point ; Dresden point ; a collar of point . See cut under lace . Used in the plural, the term denotes lace, especially fine lace in general: as, a christening-robe trimmed with French points ; especially so used in the eighteenth century, in such phrases as "he is well in points " that is, well supplied with lace. Point is also used freely in English in connection with the decorative arts (as a tapestry of Beauvais point ), referring to some peculiar kind of work, and is even applied to bobbin lace and the like. It also denotes vaguely a pattern or a feature of a pattern in works of embroidery and the like, usually in connection with the stitch or the peculiar method of work which produces it. Thus, dentelle , point d'Angleterre, means literally lace, English style of work, but the phrase English point is more often used for it, causing great confusion with the proper sense of needlepoint lace. See lace. We shall all ha' bride-laces B. Jonson, Tale of a Tub, i. 2. Or points . 19. A lace with tags at the end. Such laces, about eight inches long, consisting often of three differently colored strands of yarn twisted together and having their ends wrapped with iron, were used in the middle ages to fasten the clothes together, but gave place to buttons in the seventeenth century. They were also made of silk or leather. They or their tags were much used as small stakes in gaming, as forfeits, counters, Points in Costume. and gratuities-uses explaining many allusions in old writers, especially the figurative use of the word for a small value, or a thing of small value. point Al in a kirtel of a lyght waget, Ful faire and thikke been the poyntes set.