poun1t

An obsolete form of pound2. poun2t, n. An obsolete variant of pawn2. Chau pouncel (pouns), v.; pret. and pp. pounced, ppr. pouncing. [ME. pounsen, a var. of punchen, punch, pierce (see punch ); in part prob. prob. an abbr. of pounsonen, punch: see pounson1, v.] I. trans. 1. To punch; prick; perforate; make holes in; specifically, to ornament by perforating or cutting; ornament with holes, especially eyelet-holes. A shorte coate garded and pounced after the galliarde fashion. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, ii. 3. They make holes in their faces, and, foorthwith sprinkelynge a pouder theron, they moiste the pounced place with a certeyne blacke or redde iuise. Peter Martyr (tr. in Eden's First Books on America, ed. [Arber, p. 182). The women with an Iron pounce and race their bodies, legs, thighes, and armes, in curious knots and portraitures of fowles, fishes, beasts, and rub a painting into the same, which will neuer out. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 768. I will stand close up anywhere to escape this polt - footed philosopher, old Smug here of Lemnos, and his smoky family. B. Jonson , Mercury Vindicated. poultice (pol'tis), n . [Early mod. E. also pultis , pulte e ; * pultice , * pulticium , poultice (cf. OF. pulte = It. polt a , poultice, It. also poltiglia , formerly also pultiglia , pap, por- ridge, formerly also poultice), pul (t-)s, thick pap, porridge: see pulse2 .] A soft and usually warm ma of meal, bread, herbs, or the like, used as an emollient application to sores, inflamed parts of the body, etc.; a cataplasm. Is this the poultice for my aching bones? Shak., R. and J., ii. 5. 65. Pultises made of green herbs. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 380. Treating it [a stiff joint] with poultices of marsh- mallows,... bonus Henricus, white lilies, and fenugreek. Sterne , Tristram Shandy, vii. 21. And silence like a poultice comes To heal the blows of sound. O. W. Holmes, Organ-grinder. poultice (pol'tis), v . t .; pret. and pp. poulticed , ppr. poulticing . [ poultice , n .] To cover with a poultice; apply poultices to. Back into the friendly shadows of the mountain the young man carried his poulticed ear and picturesque scars. The Century , XXXVI. 904. poultice-boot (pol'tis-böt), n. A large boot with soft leather sides and a heavy sole-leather bottom, used for applying a poultice to a horse's Verrill. leg. E. H. Knight. its and anatomical structures that belong in part to the polyps and in part to the poulpe (Octopus), and which appear to have been derived largely from the several descriptions of these totally distinct groups of animals contained in some cyclopedia. poult (polt), n. [Early mod. E. also poult (and poultice-shoe (põl'tis-shö), n. Same as poultice polt: see poult - foot ); also dial. pout, powt; I' th' camp You do not feed on pheasant poults . Chapman , Revenge for Honour, i. 1. The third [dish] contained a turkey- pout on a marmalade of berengena. Smollett , tr. of Gil Blas, ix. 4. A turkey poult larded with bacon and spice. Barham , In golds by Legends, I. 169. poult (polt), v . t . [ poult , n.] To kill poultry. Hall i well.