punto (punto)

[ This cannot be any way offensive to your own, and is expected to the utmost punto by that other nation. Bp . Hacket , Abp. Williams, i. 150. ( Davies .) 21. One of the old forms given to the beard. I have yet No ague, I can look upon your buff, And punto beard, yet call for no strong-water. Shirley, Honoria and Mammon, i. 2. 3. A thrust or pa in fencing; a point. I would teach these nineteen the special rules, as your punto , your reverso, your stoccata, your imbroccato, your pa ada, your montanto. B. Jonson , Every Man in his Humour, iv. 5. 4. A stitch or method of work with the needle or the loom: same as point1 , 18.-5. Same as pontil. A solid iron rod tipped with melted gla , called a punto. Ure, Dict., II. 657. Punto dritto, a direct point or hit. Your dagger com maunding his rapier, you may give him a punt a , either dritta , or rivers a. Saviolo, On the Duello, K2. ( Nares .) Punto river so, a back-handed stroke. Ah, the immortal pa ado! the punto reverso ! Shak., R. and J., ii. 4. 27. puntsman (punts'man), n .; pl. puntsmen (-men). [ punt's , po . of punt1 , + man .] A sportsman who uses a punt. It being the desire of puntsmen to pot as many birds as po ible by one shot. W. W. Greener, The Gun, p. 531. punty (pun'ti), n.; pl. punties (-tiz). [Also puntee, ponty, etc.: see pontil.] 1. Same as pontil. Now the gla globe is fastened to two bars, the punty and the blow-pipe. Harper's Mag., LXXIX. 254. 2. An oval or circular dot or depre ion: a kind of ornamentation employed in gla -cutting. punty -rod (pun'ti-rod), n. Same as pontil . punyl (pū'ni), a.and n. [Formerly also puney, punie, punay, also puisne, puisny, the form puisne being still retained archaically in legal use; How the young whelp of Talbot's, raging-wood, Did flesh his puny sword in French men's blood! 4850 third and usually quiescent stage of those insects which undergo complete metamorphosis, intervening between the larval and the imaginal stage. It is usually called the second stage, the egg not being counted. Some pupæ, as those of mosquitoes, are active. The pupa of some insects is called a pu parium, and of others a nymph or chrysalis. See these words. See also cuts under beetle, Carpocapsa, chinch- bug, Erotylus, and house -fly. 2. A stage in the development of some other arthropods, as cirripeds. See lo comotive pupa, below.-3. [ cap.] [NL.] In conch., the typical genus of Pupidæ; the chrysalis - shells. - Coarctate pupa, conical pupæ, exarate pupæ, inert pupa. See the adjectives. - Incased pupa. See incase.-Locomotive pupa, in Cirriped i a, the third stage of the larva, the first being a nauplius, the second resembling Daphnia or Cypris. In this stage little is visible externally but the carapace, the limbs being hidden. There are, however, large lateral eyes and six pairs of legs, and the gut-formed gland is well developed. After swimming awhile the pupa becomes attached to some object, Pupa of Prionus lati coll is. at first only by its suctorial disks, soon, however, becom ing permanently fixed to the spot by the of a cement. See cut under Cirriped i a. This locomotive pupa is unable to feed; other important alterations take place during the pa age of the locomotive pupa into the fixed young Cirripede. Huxley , Anat. Invert., p. 259. pupilarity In the other group [of dipterous insects], which are always pupigerous , the perfect insect escapes from the larval skin through a more or le circular opening. Stand. Nat . Hist ., II. 406. pupill (pū'pil), n. and a. [Formerly pupill; Tutors should behave reverently before their pupils . Sir R. L'Estrange. 21. A ward; a youth or person under the care of a guardian. What, shall King Henry be a pupil still Under the surly Gloucester's governance? Shak., 2 Hen. VI., i. 3. 49. 3. In civil law, a person under puberty (fourteen for males, twelve for females), over whom a guardian has been appointed. II. a. Under age; in a state of pupilage or nonage; minor. The custody of his pupil children. Westminster Rev. , CXXVIII. 703. = IMG:content-1314.png:[blocks in formation] IND [NL., pupa , a pupa: see pupa . ] A pupa in- cluded within the last larval skin; a coarctate pupa; a larva pupigera, as in all dipterous in- sects of the division Cyclorhapha and in many of the Orthorhapha . See cut under Pipiza . pupate (pūpāt), v . i.; pret. and pp. pupated , Shak ., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 7. 36. ppr. pupating . [ pupa + -ate2 .] To become I do but ask my month, a pupa; enter upon the pupal state; undergo transformation from the state of the grub or Which every petty, puisne devil has. He is a puny soul who, feeling pain, Finds ease because another feels it too. Words worth, The Borderers, iii. =Syn. 2. Little, diminutive, stunted, starveling. II . n .; pl. punies (-niz). A young, inexperi- enced person; a junior; a novice. Nay, then, I see thou 'rt but a puny in the subtill Mistery of a woman. Tourneur , Revenger's Tragedy, i. 3. There is only in the amity of women an estate for will, and every puny knows that is no certain inheritance. Dekker and Webster, Westward Ho, i. 2. He... must appear in Print like a punie with his be bayl and surety that he is no idiot or seducer. to pupate under ground; to pupate in winter. pupation (pū-pā'shon), n. shon [ pupe (pup), n. [ n. [Perhaps [Perhaps a corrupted rkin.] pupelo (pu'pe-lō), form, ult. In Livings ton there were five distilleries for the manufacture of cider-brandy, or what was familiarly known as pupelo . S. Judd , Margaret, i. 7. Milton , Areopagitica, p. 31. Others to make sporte with all; of this last sorte were they whom they call freshmenn, punies of the first yeare. Christmas Prince at St. John's Coll ., p. 1. (Nares.)