Philip has contradicted him point - blank, until Mr

Hobday turned quite red. Thackeray, Philip, xxii. point-blank (point'blangk'), a. [ 2. Direct; plain; explicit; expre : as, a point blank denial. Point-blank range, the distance to which a shot is reckoned to range straight, without appreciably drooping from the force of gravity. The difference between the proper method of shooting at short, that is point blanc , range , and that of shooting at the great distances used in the York Round, is radical. M. and W. Thompson , Archery, p. 1. point-circle (point'sėr"kl), n. A point considered as an infinitesimal circle. point-coördinate (point'kō-ôr"di-nāt), n. One of a system of coördinates of points. point-devicet, point-deviset (point'dē-vis'), n. [ point devys : see point and device . No OF. form of the term appears.] Used only in the following phrase. - At point-device, exactly; particularly; carefully; nicely. Whan that the firste cok hath crowe anon, Up rist this joly lovere Absolon, And him arraieth gay, at poynt devys. Chaucer , Miller's Tale, 1. 503. Hym self armyd atte poynte - devise . Generydes (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3307. So noble he was of stature, So faire, so joly, and so fetys, With lymes wrought at poynt devys, Delyver, smert, and of grete myght, Ne sawe thou nevere man so lyght.