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n.
One who, or that which, pierces or perforates
n.
Want of hope; despair; also, faint or delusive hope; delusion. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.
a.
Forcibly entering, or adapted to enter, at or by a point; perforating; penetrating; keen; -- used also figuratively; as, a piercing instrument, or thrust.
n.
The elevated central portion of the roof of a passenger car. Its sides are pierced for light and ventilation.
n.
Any butterfly of the genus Pieris and related genera. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.
n.
A piercel.
a.
Rough; pricking; piercing.
n.
The act of transfixing, or the state of being transfixed, or pierced.
imp. & p. p.
of Pierce
a.
Not gored or pierced.
a.
That may be pierced.
v. t.
To penetrate; to enter; to force a way into or through; to pass into or through; as, to pierce the enemy's line; a shot pierced the ship.
n. pl.
A grand division of the animal kingdom, intermediate, in some respects, between the invertebrates and vertebrates, and by some writers united with the latter. They were formerly classed with acephalous mollusks. The body is usually covered with a firm external tunic, consisting in part of cellulose, and having two openings, one for the entrance and one for the exit of water. The pharynx is usually dilated in the form of a sac, pierced by several series of ciliated slits, and serves as a gill.
v. t.
Fig.: To penetrate; to affect deeply; as, to pierce a mystery.
n.
A kind of gimlet for making vents in casks; -- called also piercer.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Pierce
v. t.
To pierce through; to penetrate; to permeate; to pass through.
a.
Of or pertaining to Pierides or Muses.
n.
A viaduct, pier, scaffold, or the like, resting on trestles connected together.
v. t.
To pierce through, as with a pointed weapon; to impale; as, to transfix one with a dart.
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