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Pointed   /pˈɔɪntəd/  /pˈɔɪnəd/  /pˈɔɪntɪd/   Listen
adjective
Pointed  adj.  
1.
Sharp; having a sharp point; as, a pointed rock.
2.
Characterized by sharpness, directness, or pithiness of expression; terse; epigrammatic; especially, directed to a particular person or thing. "His moral pleases, not his pointed wit."
Pointed arch (Arch.), an arch with a pointed crown.
Pointed style (Arch.), a name given to that style of architecture in which the pointed arch is the predominant feature; more commonly called Gothic.





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"Pointed" Quotes from Famous Books



... stay here, Violet; you see him there." Cyril pointed to a tree, against whose trunk Kennedy was leaning, with his eyes bent upon the ground, looking at the red splashes on the withered leaves, and the golden buds embroidered on "elf-needled mat of moss." Hearing the sound ...
— Julian Home • Dean Frederic W. Farrar
... as she had been accustomed to do, but now Mrs. Conant wore on her ear an instrument similar in appearance to a small telephone receiver, and she seemed to hear quite distinctly through its mechanism. Indeed, she pointed to it with an air of pride and said: "I can hear a whisper, ...
— Mary Louise • Edith van Dyne (one of L. Frank Baum's pen names)
... a face and what eyes she turned upon me as, rising, she once more pointed to the door, and cried, 'Go!' And indeed I went,—the girl ...
— What Answer? • Anna E. Dickinson
... fast as one who must accomplish much in little time, "I've been all over that store. My! But I'd like to see ye both there—'specially you!" Her crooked finger pointed at Lena. "I bet you're a good one. You could make a cow buy stockings if you took ...
— The Torch Bearer - A Camp Fire Girls' Story • I. T. Thurston
... have no further plans to offer for you. You are ruined, utterly ruined: you have done your best to ruin me and your mother; I have pointed out to you, I arranged for you, the only way in which your affairs could be redeemed; I made every thing easy ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope


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